Acute ischemic stroke - from symptom recognition to thrombolysis.

CONCLUSIONS: As neuronal death in stroke patients occurs in a time-dependent fashion, all effort should be made to decrease time from symptom onset to treatment start with rtPA: major challenges are stroke recognition in the public, transport times to hospital and an efficient stroke triage in the hospital. PMID: 23190293 [PubMed - in process]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/23190293?dopt=Abstract

Source: Acta Neurologica Scandinavica. Supplementum - January 11, 2013 Category: Neurology Authors: Kurz MW, Kurz KD, Farbu E Tags: Acta Neurol Scand Suppl Source Type: research