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Stroke: from recognition by the public to management by emergency medical services.
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Whether tools to aid dispatchers and paramedics in stroke diagnosis, assessment, and management can improve stroke patients' outcomes requires further study, as does the value of designated stroke centers.About:
This article is published in Prehospital Emergency Care.The article was published on 2002-01-01. It has received 47 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Stroke & Emergency medical services.read more
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Recommendations for the Establishment of Stroke Systems of Care Recommendations From the American Stroke Association's Task Force on the Development of Stroke Systems Task Force Members
Lee H. Schwamm,Arthur Pancioli,Joe E. Acker,Larry B. Goldstein,Richard D. Zorowitz,Timothy J. Shephard,Peter Moyer,Mark W. Gorman,S. Claiborne Johnston,Pamela W. Duncan,Phil Gorelick,Jeffery Frank,Steven K. Stranne,Renee Smith,William Federspiel,Katie B. Horton,Ellen Magnis,Robert J. Adams +17 more
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Can Mass Media Influence Emergency Department Visits for Stroke
TL;DR: Results of this study suggest there may be an important correlation between the advertising and emergency department presentations with stroke, particularly for TIAs.
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Advertising Strategies to Increase Public Knowledge of the Warning Signs of Stroke
TL;DR: In communities exposed to television advertising, ability to name the warning signs of stroke increased significantly and can be used to guide mass media–buying strategies for public health education.
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Low public recognition of major stroke symptoms.
Kurt J. Greenlund,Linda J. Neff,Zhi-Jie Zheng,Nora L. Keenan,Wayne H. Giles,Carma Ayala,Janet B. Croft,George A. Mensah +7 more
TL;DR: Public recognition of major stroke symptoms is low and educational campaigns to increase awareness among the general population and targeted messages to those at high-risk persons and their families may help to improve time to treatment for adults suffering acute strokes.
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Paramedic identification of stroke : community validation of the Melbourne ambulance stroke screen
TL;DR: The Melbourne Ambulance Stroke Screen is simple to use, with accurate prehospital identification of stroke, and distinguishes stroke mimics, with good recognition of suitable patients for thrombolytic therapy.
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Recommendations for the establishment of primary stroke centers
Mark J. Alberts,George J. Hademenos,Richard E. Latchaw,Andy Jagoda,John R. Marler,Marc R. Mayberg,Rodman D. Starke,Harold W. Todd,Kenneth M. Viste,Meighan Girgus,Tim Shephard,Marian Emr,Patti Shwayder,Michael D. Walker +13 more
TL;DR: Recommendations for the establishment and operation of primary stroke centers are developed as an approach to improve the medical care of patients with stroke and suggest that several elements of a stroke center would improve patient care and outcomes.
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Cincinnati Prehospital Stroke Scale: reproducibility and validity.
TL;DR: The CPSS has excellent reproducibility among prehospital personnel and physicians and has good validity in identifying patients with stroke who are candidates for thrombolytic therapy, especially those with anterior circulation stroke.
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Public Perception of Stroke Warning Signs and Knowledge of Potential Risk Factors
Arthur M. Pancioli,Joseph P. Broderick,Rashmi Kothari,Thomas G. Brott,Alfred J. Tuchfarber,Rosie Miller,Jane Khoury,Edward C. Jauch +7 more
TL;DR: The population at greatest risk for stroke, the very elderly, are the least knowledgeable about stroke warning signs and risk factors.
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Identifying Stroke in the Field: Prospective Validation of the Los Angeles Prehospital Stroke Screen (LAPSS)
TL;DR: The Los Angeles Prehospital Stroke Screen allows prehospital personnel to identify patients with acute cerebral ischemia and intracerebral hemorrhage with a high degree of sensitivity and specificity.
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Delay in presentation and evaluation for acute stroke : Stroke time registry for outcomes knowledge and epidemiology (S. T. R. O. K. E.)
TL;DR: Delays in arrival time from onset of signs or symptoms to arrival at the emergency department and to initial evaluation by physicians and by identifying factors associated with these delays were determined.