Study Objective To compare the difference in frequency of tPA administration,“door-to-tPA”
time and “door-to-CT” time in suspected stroke patients who present to a primary versus …

Introduction: Pre-hospital stroke care focusses on rapid access to specialist stroke units, but
UK ambulance data shows increasing pre-hospital times. This study aimed to describe …

Introduction: Current recommendations for regional stroke destination suggest that patients
with an acute severe stroke should be triaged based on estimated time to arrival to a …

Delays between hospital arrival and neuroimaging prevented patients from receiving
thrombolysis. We report impact of Stroke Fast Track (SFT) on time to imaging, and rates of …

Purpose: Timely identification and transport are crucial for the pre-hospital management of
stroke by emergency medical service (EMS) providers. In this preliminary study, our aim was …

Acute stroke treatment is utterly time dependent. The treatment effect is greatest in the first
hour after symptom onset (the golden hour), and even a few minutes reduction in time to …

Background: Use of prehospital stroke scales may enhance stroke detection and improve
treatment rates and delays. Current scales, however, may lack detection accuracy. As such …

Rationale Access to intravenous thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke is limited
worldwide, particularly in regional and rural areas including in Australia. We are testing the …

Background and Purpose—We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention to
improve triage, treatment, and transfer for patients with acute stroke admitted to the …

Dear Editor, Time is brain in the treatment of acute stroke. Minimizing time to treatment with
intravenous thrombolysis and/or endovascular treatment (EVT) for ischemic stroke is a …