- ►annals.org JL Gerberding - Annals of internal medicine, 2002 - Am Coll Physicians The field of infection control could benefit by adopting several approaches advocated by patient
safety adherents, such as root-cause analysis. For example, hospital-onset infections that are
implicated as attributable causes of death should perhaps be reviewed by local infection ... Cited by 87 - Related articles - All 6 versions
E Righetti, MG Celani, TA Cantisani, R Sterzi, G … - Journal of neurology, 2002 - Springer Dr. E. Righetti, MD ( ) · MG Celani, MD · S. Ricci, MD Servizio Malattie Cerebrovascolari USL
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JS Huff - Emergency medicine clinics of North America, 2002 - Elsevier The diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke is often straightforward. The sudden onset of a focal neurologic
deficit in a recognizable intracranial vascular distribution with a common clinical syndrome such
as hemiparesis, facial weakness, and aphasia identifies a clinical syndrome of acute ... Cited by 33 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
H Fukuda, M Kitani, K Takahashi - Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, 1999 - pt.wkhealth.com Results: RS90 showed an independent correlation with RS0, RS1, age, infarct size and maximum
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M Camerlingo, L Casto, B Censori, B Ferraro, G … - Neurological Sciences, 2001 - Springer Abstract We prospectively verified whether an ad-hoc ques- tionnaire administered by phone
supports pre-hospital suspi- cion of stroke in order to reduce the time before care is given. From
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… C Kociszewski, LH Schwamm, SK Wedel - Prehospital …, 2002 - informahealthcare.com Though helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) were developed primarily for trauma
trans- fers, nontrauma use of HEMS has grown over the ensuing decades. For example, HEMS
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- ►ahajournals.org A Bhalla, S Sankaralingam, R Dundas, R Swaminathan … - Stroke, 2000 - Am Heart Assoc Methods—Acute stroke patients had their plasma osmolality measured at admission and at days
1, 3, and 7. Maximum plasma osmolality and the area under curve (AUC) were also calculated
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M Dimigen, S Keir, M Dennis, J Wardlaw - Journal of Stroke and …, 2004 - Elsevier Background: It is unclear whether primary intracerebral hemorrhage (PICH) remains detectable
with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the long term, or whether a gradient echo recalled
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