Stroke Symptoms and the Decision to Call for an Ambulance: Turn on People’s Minds! | Zendy

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Stroke Symptoms and the Decision to Call for an Ambulance: Turn on People’s Minds!

Author(s) -

Alberto Chiti,

Simona Fanucchi,

C Sonnoli,

Simona Barni,

Giovanni Orlandi

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

stroke

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397

H-Index - 319

eISSN - 1524-4628

pISSN - 0039-2499

DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.107.489179

Subject(s) - medicine , stroke (engine) , medical emergency , emergency medical services , emergency medicine , mechanical engineering , engineering

To the Editor:We read with great interest the article by Mosley et al1 on factors related to calling an ambulance for stroke patients. The authors reported that “stroke” was referred as the problem (unprompted) by ≈50% of callers, whereas fewer than half of the calls were made within 1 hour from symptom onset. We agree with the authors on the necessity of interventions to more strongly link stroke recognition to immediate action to increase the number of stroke patients …

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