“Hesitating and Puzzling”: The Experiences and Decision Process of Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients with Prehospital Delay after the Onset of Symptoms

“Hesitating and Puzzling”: The Experiences and Decision Process of Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients with Prehospital Delay after the Onset of Symptoms

Despite campaigns to increase public awareness of stroke symptoms by advocating FAST (Face-Arms-Speech-Time), some stroke patients still show delays in the recognition of and response to stroke symptoms and miss the golden first 4.5 h to receive rt-PA (recombinant tissue plasminogen activator) treat...

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Main Authors: Pao-Yu Wang, Lee-Ing Tsao, Yu-Wei Chen, Ying-Tao Lo, Hui-Lin Sun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-08-01
Series:Healthcare
Subjects:
grounded theory
prehospital delay
acute ischemic stroke
rt-PA
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/9/8/1061

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