‘Is he awake?’: dialogues between callers and call handlers about consciousness during emergency calls for suspected acute stroke

Josephine M E Gibson; Mike Bullock; Gary A Ford; Stephanie P Jones; Michael J Leathley; Joanna J McAdam; Tom Quinn; Caroline L Watkins; on behalf of the ESCORTT group

doi:10.1136/emermed-2012-201195

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Prehospital care

‘Is he awake?’: dialogues between callers and call handlers about consciousness during emergency calls for suspected acute stroke

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Josephine M E Gibson Clinical Practice Research Unit, Department of Health, University of Central Lancashire, Brook Building, Preston, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Mike Bullock Clinical Practice Research Unit, Department of Health, University of Central Lancashire, Brook Building, Preston, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Gary A Ford Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Stephanie P Jones Clinical Practice Research Unit, Department of Health, University of Central Lancashire, Brook Building, Preston, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Michael J Leathley Clinical Practice Research Unit, Department of Health, University of Central Lancashire, Brook Building, Preston, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Joanna J McAdam Clinical Practice Research Unit, Department of Health, University of Central Lancashire, Brook Building, Preston, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Tom Quinn Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Caroline L Watkins Clinical Practice Research Unit, Department of Health, University of Central Lancashire, Brook Building, Preston, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
on behalf of the ESCORTT group
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Correspondence to Dr Josephine Gibson, University of Central Lancashire, Brook Building 418, Preston PR1 2HE, UK; jgibson4{at}uclan.ac.uk

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Gibson JME, Bullock M, Ford GA, et al

‘Is he awake?’: dialogues between callers and call handlers about consciousness during emergency calls for suspected acute stroke

Emergency Medicine Journal 2013;30:414-418.

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Accepted May 6, 2012
First published June 22, 2012.

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