Sentence examples for standards of stroke from inspiring English sources

For example, examinations of the standards of stroke care in the Paul Coverdell National Stroke Surveillance database revealed that time of stroke onset was missing from 58% of 56,969 stroke cases in the US from 2005 to 2007 [ 17].

Doctors immediately gave him the clot-busting drug tPA, which is considered the gold standard of stroke care.

Less than six months later, 6 of the 12 patients had improved scores on standard measures of stroke effects, Dr. Kondziolka's team reported in the journal Neurology.

With the present study, we aim to complete our previous studies conducted on the use of the Neuro-Rehabilitation-Robot (NeReBot) for the treatment of poststroke upper limb impairment [ 7– 9, 12], by presenting an evaluation of the costs related to delivering such therapy to patients, with reference to the standard costs of stroke rehabilitation in the Italian National Health Care System.

Although this may be the gold standard of acute stroke care, it will require significant expansion of current services.

None of the above-mentioned studies used as reference or gold standard the identification of stroke symptoms on the scene.

Thus, it is premature to offer this therapy as a standard for treatment of stroke or traumatic brain injury patients and the protocols for its use must be carefully worked out, as well as the subpopulations of patients who are most likely to benefit.

We are at risk in some areas of the standard of post-stroke care regressing.

On acute phase of stroke, standard HD treatment may increase cerebral damage by changing serum and tissue osmolarity.

The stent was approved for humanitarian use after a pilot study suggested that patients with a very high risk of stroke on standard medical management might benefit from stenting.

We describe a single-site prospective study in which we compare the results of preclinical neurological examinations supported by TCCS in the field with the results of standard stroke imaging studies (CTA, MRA) and with final discharge diagnoses from the treating stroke unit.