Prehospital Care of the Acute Stroke Patient

Tissue Plasminogen Activator for Acute Ischemic Stroke

1995 • 10,997 citations

Association of outcome with early stroke treatment: pooled analysis of ATLANTIS, ECASS, and NINDS rt-PA stroke trials

2004 • 2,512 citations

Early stroke treatment associated with better outcome

2000 • 857 citations

Recommendations for the Establishment of Primary Stroke Centers

2000 • 733 citations

Cincinnati Prehospital Stroke Scale: Reproducibility and Validity

1999 • 631 citations

Public Perception of Stroke Warning Signs and Knowledge of Potential Risk Factors

1998 • 515 citations

Beyond Mismatch

2003 • 473 citations

Intravenous Tissue Plasminogen Activator for Acute Ischemic Stroke

1998 • 414 citations

Identifying Stroke in the Field

2000 • 408 citations

Patients’ Awareness of Stroke Signs, Symptoms, and Risk Factors

1997 • 363 citations

Stroke Patients’ Knowledge of Stroke

1997 • 323 citations

Prehospital and Emergency Department Delays After Acute Stroke

2000 • 315 citations

Utilization of Intravenous Tissue Plasminogen Activator for Acute Ischemic Stroke

2004 • 277 citations

Prehospital Neuroprotective Therapy for Acute Stroke

2004 • 251 citations

Effects of public and professional education on reducing the delay in presentation and referral of stroke patients.

1992 • 249 citations

Time of Hospital Presentation in Patients With Acute Stroke

1993 • 229 citations

Critical factors determining access to acute stroke care

1998 • 189 citations

Early Stroke Recognition: Developing an Out‐of‐hospital NIH Stroke Scale

1997 • 182 citations

Knowledge of Risk Among Patients at Increased Risk for Stroke

1997 • 177 citations

Relative importance of emergency medical system transport and the prehospital electrocardiogram on reducing hospital time delay to therapy for acute myocardial infarction: A preliminary report from the Cincinnati Heart Project

1992 • 166 citations

Delay in Neurological Attention and Stroke Outcome

1995 • 164 citations

Delayed Hospital Arrival for Acute Stroke: The Minnesota Stroke Survey

1998 • 154 citations

Prehospital Delay After Acute Stroke in Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2004 • 141 citations

Sustained Benefit of a Community and Professional Intervention to Increase Acute Stroke Therapy

2003 • 135 citations

Design and retrospective analysis of the los angeles prehospital stroke screen (lapss)

1998 • 135 citations

Current Emergency Department Management of Stroke in Houston, Texas

1995 • 134 citations

Use of a Field-to-Stroke Center Helicopter Transport Program to Extend Thrombolytic Therapy to Rural Residents

2003 • 133 citations

Factors associated with early presentation of acute stroke.

1993 • 131 citations

Prehospital recognition of AMI using independent nurse/paramedic 12-lead ECG evaluation: Impact on in-hospital times to thrombolysis in a rural community hospital

1994 • 127 citations

CGS‐19755, A competitive NMDA receptor antagonist, reduces calcium‐calmodulin binding and improves outcome after global cerebral ischemia

1990 • 119 citations

Variables Associated With Hospital Arrival Time After Stroke

1997 • 117 citations

Emergency medical services dispatcher identification of stroke and transient ischemic attack

1999 • 105 citations

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2004 • 104 citations

Code stroke. An attempt to shorten inhospital therapeutic delays.

1994 • 95 citations

Cost–Effectiveness of Helicopter Transport of Stroke Patients for Thrombolysis

2003 • 90 citations

A study of factors delaying hospital arrival of patients with acute stroke.

2001 • 83 citations

Accuracy of paramedic identification of stroke and transient ischemic attack in the field

1998 • 76 citations

Language comprehension and regional cerebral defects in frontotemporal degeneration and Alzheimer's disease

1998 • 73 citations

Helicopter Transfer Offers a Potential Benefit to Patients With Acute Stroke

1999 • 69 citations

T HE E VOLVING R OLE OF H ELICOPTER E MERGENCY M EDICAL S ERVICES IN THE T RANSFER OF S TROKE P ATIENTS TO S PECIALIZED C ENTERS

2002 • 64 citations

Delay between Stroke Onset and Emergency Department Evaluation

2001 • 60 citations

Graded bioassay for demonstration of brain rescue from experimental acute ischemia in rats.

1994 • 59 citations

Immunohistochemical Determination of Calcium—Calmodulin Binding Predicts Neuronal Damage after Global Ischemia

1989 • 56 citations

Identification and entry of the patient with acute cerebral infarction

1988 • 45 citations

Threshold of calcium disturbances after focal cerebral ischemia in rats. Implications of the window of therapeutic opportunity.

1993 • 39 citations

Time to emergency department arrival and its determinants in patients with acute ischemic stroke.

2003 • 31 citations

Hospital presentation after stroke in a community sample: the Mobile Stroke Project.

2002 • 28 citations

Feasibility of Neuroprotective Agent Administration by Prehospital Personnel in an Urban Setting

2003 • 27 citations

Accuracy of paramedic diagnosis of stroke

1998 • 26 citations

Hospital Presentation After Stroke in a Community Sample

2002 • 24 citations

Factors Influencing the Pre- and In-Hospital Management of Acute Stroke – Data from a Greek Tertiary Care Hospital

2003 • 10 citations

High accuracy of emergency medical technician identification of stroke using the Los Angeles Prehospital Stroke Screen (LAPSS)

1998 • 8 citations

A pilot study regarding knowledge of stroke risk factors in an urban community

1997 • 7 citations

Delayed Hospital Arrival for Acute Stroke

1999 • 7 citations