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Training emergency services’ dispatchers to recognise stroke: an interrupted time-series analysis [PDF]

, 2013
Background: Stroke is a time-dependent medical emergency in which early presentation to specialist care reduces death and dependency. Up to 70% of all stroke patients obtain first medical contact from the Emergency Medical Services (EMS).
A Berglund, A Worster, AD Lopez, AK Wagner, AW Wojner-Alexandrov, BH Buck, Caroline L Watkins, CD Deakin, Chris J Sutton, Department of Health, EH Gilbert, European Stroke Organization (ESO) Executive Committee and the ESO Writing Committee, Gary A Ford, Michael J Leathley, P Ramanujam, R Kothari, R Kothari, SP Jones, SP Jones, SP Jones, Stephanie P Jones, The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke rt-PA Stroke Study Group, Tom Quinn   +22 more
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Identifying Gaps and Missed Opportunities for Intravenous Thrombolytic Treatment of Inpatient Stroke

Frontiers in Neurology, 2020
Background: Inpatient stroke-codes (ISC) have traditionally seen low treatment rates with IV-thrombolytic (IVT). The purpose of this study was to identify the predictors of true stroke, prevalent IVT-treatment gap and study the factors associated with ...
Karan Topiwala, Karan Tarasaria, Ilene Staff, Dawn Beland, Erica Schuyler, Erica Schuyler, Amre Nouh, Amre Nouh   +7 more
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The role of targeted physiotherapy in the group of patients diagnosed with epilepsy [PDF]

Rehabilitacja Medyczna, 2022
Introduction: Epilepsy is a chronic disease characterised by a predisposition to the occurrence of recurrent and unprovoked seizures. Due to the unpredictability of the disease (due to the possibility of seizures occurring at any time), the quality of ...
Elżbieta Szczygieł-Pilut, Elżbieta Mirek, Magdalena Filip, Daniel Pilut, Justyna Totoń-Żurańska   +4 more
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Prevalence and time course of post-stroke pain: A multicenter prospective hospital-based study [PDF]

, 2015
OBJECTIVE: Pain prevalence data for patients at various stages after stroke. DESIGN: Repeated cross-sectional, observational epidemiological study. SETTING: Hospital-based multicenter study.
Barbanti, Piero, Bovi, Paolo, Candeloro, E, Cavallini, Anna, Cruccu, Giorgio, Iosa, Marco, Mancini, Alessia, Mancuso, Mauro, Monaco, Serena, Paolucci, Stefano, Pieroni, Alessio, Pieroni, Alessio, Recchia, Serena, Sessa, Maria, Strambo, Davide, Tinazzi, Michele, Toni, Danilo, Truini, Andrea   +17 more
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The Impact of Surgery Resident Participation on the Outcome of Carotid Endarterectomy [PDF]

, 2020
Introduction. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the in-hospital stroke rate plus deaths (SD) was adversely impacted by the participation of surgery residents during carotid endarterectomy. Methods.
Ammar, Alex
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Stroke units: The implementation of a complex intervention [PDF]

, 2005
This article reports on selected findings from an action research study that looked at the lessons learnt from setting up a new in-patient stroke service in a London teaching hospital.
Flatley, M, Kilbride, C, Meyer, J, Perry, L   +3 more
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Prehospital neurological deterioration in stroke [PDF]

, 2018
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Patients with stroke can experience neurological deterioration in the prehospital setting. We evaluated patients with stroke to determine factors associated with prehospital neurological deterioration (PND).
Adeoye, Opeolu, Alwell, Kathleen, De Los Rios La Rosa, Felipe, Ferioli, Simona, Flaherty, Matthew L., Kissela, Brett M., Kleindorfer, Dawn O., Mackey, Jason, Martini, Sharyl, McMullan, Jason, Moomaw, Charles J., Slavin, Sabreena J., Sucharew, Heidi, Woo, Daniel   +13 more
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In-hospital stroke in patients after cardiovascular surgery

Анналы клинической и экспериментальной неврологии, 2017
Introduction. Strokes in patients managed at the department of cardiovascular surgery hold a leading position among all in-hospital strokes in multispeciality hospitals.
Polina A. Filimonova, L. I. Volkova, A. M. Alasheev, E. A. Grichuk   +3 more
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sTREM2 is associated with amyloid‐related p‐tau increases and glucose hypermetabolism in Alzheimer's disease

EMBO Molecular Medicine, 2023
Microglial activation occurs early in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and previous studies reported both detrimental and protective effects of microglia on AD progression.
Davina Biel, Marc Suárez‐Calvet, Paul Hager, Anna Rubinski, Anna Dewenter, Anna Steward, Sebastian Roemer, Michael Ewers, Christian Haass, Matthias Brendel, Nicolai Franzmeier, for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI)   +11 more
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Active Cancer and Elevated D-Dimer Are Risk Factors for In-Hospital Ischemic Stroke

Cerebrovascular Diseases Extra, 2019
Background and Purpose: Little attention has been paid to the pathogenesis of in-hospital stroke, despite poor outcomes and a longer time from stroke onset to treatment. We studied the pathophysiology and biomarkers for detecting patients who progress to
Izumi Yamaguchi, Yasuhisa Kanematsu, Kenji Shimada, Masaaki Korai, Takeshi Miyamoto, Eiji Shikata, Tadashi Yamaguchi, Nobuaki Yamamoto, Yuki Yamamoto, Keiko T. Kitazato, Yoshihiro Okayama, Yasushi Takagi   +11 more
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