Time to treatment with intravenous tissue plasminogen activator and outcome from acute ischemic stroke.

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Published in JAMA on June 19, 2013

Authors

Jeffrey L Saver1, Gregg C Fonarow, Eric E Smith, Mathew J Reeves, Maria V Grau-Sepulveda, Wenqin Pan, Daiwai M Olson, Adrian F Hernandez, Eric D Peterson, Lee H Schwamm

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA. jsaver@mednet.ucla.edu

Associated clinical trials:

A Reduction in Time With Electronic Monitoring In Stroke Trial (ARTEMIS) | NCT02808806

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