Background: Time limited acute stroke treatments are underused primarily due to pre-hospital delay. One approach to decreasing pre-hospital delay is to increase stroke preparedness, the ability to recognize stroke and the intention to immediately call emergency medical services, through community engagement with high risk communities. Methods and Results: Our community-academic partnership deve...

BACKGROUND Time-limited acute stroke treatments are underused, primarily due to prehospital delay. One approach to decreasing prehospital delay is to increase stroke preparedness, the ability to recognize stroke, and the intention to immediately call emergency medical services, through community engagement with high-risk communities. METHODS AND RESULTS Our community-academic partnership deve...

Calling 911 during acute coronary syndromes (ACS) decreases time to treatment and may improve prognosis. Women may have more atypical ACS symptoms compared to men, but few data are available on differences in gender and ACS symptoms in calling 911. In this study, patient interviews and structured chart reviews were conducted to determine gender differences in calling 911. Calls to 911 were asse...

dynamically allocate resources to and make plans for solving problems as they arise in the world. The setting, Monroe County, NY, is considerably more complex than our previous domains (e.g. Pacifica, TRAINS), and raises new issues in knowledge representation and reference. Emergencies include requests for medical assistance, car accidents, civil disorder, and larger problems such as flooding a...

See related article, pages 1501–1507. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 15 million people experience a stroke each year, of which one third die and one third are permanently disabled. It was not until the mid-nineties that the advent of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) offered a treatment option. One of the most important factors limiting the use of tPA is the 3-...

As a participating national lab in the inter-institutional effort to resolve performance issues of the non-elutable ion exchange technology for Cs extraction, we have carried out a series of characterization studies of UOP IONSIV IE-911 and its component parts. IE-911 is a bound form (zirconium hydroxide-binder) of crystalline silicotitanate (CST) ion exchanger. The crystalline silicotitanate r...