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Pre-hospital causes for delayed arrival in acute ischemic stroke before and during the COVID-19 pand...

Pre-hospital causes for delayed arrival in acute ischemic stroke before and during the COVID-19 pand...

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Pre-hospital causes for delayed arrival in acute ischemic stroke before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A study at two stroke centers in Egypt

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Pre-hospital causes for delayed arrival in acute ischemic stroke before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A study at two stroke centers in Egypt

Publisher

United States: Public Library of Science

Journal title

PloS one, 2021-07, Vol.16 (7), p.e0254228-e0254228

Language

English

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United States: Public Library of Science

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Contents

In the current study we investigated the causes of pre-hospital delay as this can compromise the patient's chance to receive thrombolytic therapy and thus impact stroke outcome.
We surveyed 254 patients regarding reasons for delayed and early arrival to hospital after acute ischemic stroke. The survey was performed over five months, spanning a p...

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Pre-hospital causes for delayed arrival in acute ischemic stroke before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A study at two stroke centers in Egypt

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TN_cdi_plos_journals_2551563340

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_plos_journals_2551563340

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ISSN

1932-6203

E-ISSN

1932-6203

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0254228

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