Abstract:Background:
As hemorrhagic and ischemic strokes progress, acute stroke therapy is time dependent. To emphasize treatment speed for time-sensitive conditions, emergency medicine has developed not only the concept of the “golden hour,” but also the “platinum thirty”. Acute stroke patients treated within the first half-hour of onset have not been previously characterized.
Methods:
We analyzed all patients with acute stroke symptoms enrolled in the multicen… Show more
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