Bringing the hospital to the patient: first treatment of stroke patients at the emergency site.

Bringing the hospital to the patient: first treatment of stroke patients at the emergency site.

Early treatment with rt-PA is critical for favorable outcome of acute stroke. However, only a very small proportion of stroke patients receive this treatment, as most arrive at hospital too late to be eligible for rt-PA therapy.We developed a "Mobile Stroke Unit", consisting of an ambulanc...

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Main Authors: Silke Walter, Panagiotis Kostpopoulos, Anton Haass, Stefan Helwig, Isabel Keller, Tamara Licina, Thomas Schlechtriemen, Christian Roth, Panagiotis Papanagiotou, Anna Zimmer, Julio Viera, Heiko Körner, Kathrin Schmidt, Marie-Sophie Romann, Maria Alexandrou, Umut Yilmaz, Iris Grunwald, Darius Kubulus, Martin Lesmeister, Stephan Ziegeler, Alexander Pattar, Martin Golinski, Yang Liu, Thomas Volk, Thomas Bertsch, Wolfgang Reith, Klaus Fassbender
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-10-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2966432?pdf=render

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