Needed dialog: regionalization of stroke systems of care along the trauma model

Kyle M Fargen1, Edward Jauch2, Pooja Khatri2

  • 1Department of Neurosurgery, University of Florida, Gainesville (K.M.F.); Departments of Emergency Medicine (E.J.) and Radiology (A.S.T.), Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston; Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Institute, OH (P.K.); Department of Radiology, Erlanger Health System, Chattanooga, TN (B.B.); Department of Neurosurgery, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA (C.M.S.); and Department of Neurosurgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York (J.M.). kyle.fargen@neurosurgery.ufl.edu.

Stroke
|May 2, 2015
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