Predictive ability of an emergency medical dispatch stroke diagnostic tool in identifying hospital-confirmed strokes

JJ Clawson, G Scott, I Gardett, S Youngquist… - Journal of Stroke and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Early hospital notification of a possible stroke arriving via emergency medical
services (EMS) can prepare stroke center personnel for timely treatment, especially timely …

Simple In‐Hospital Interventions to Reduce Door‐to‐CT Time in Acute Stroke

E Sadeghi-Hokmabadi, A Taheraghdam… - … journal of vascular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Background. Intravenous tissue plasminogen activator, a time dependent therapy, can
reduce the morbidity and mortality of acute ischemic stroke. This study was designed to …

Prenotification and other factors involved in rapid tPA administration

JA Desai, EE Smith - Current atherosclerosis reports, 2013 - Springer
In acute ischemic stroke, time is brain. Current guidelines recommend that the time from
arrival at hospital to initiation of administration of tissue plasminogen activator, also known …

[HTML][HTML] Delayed recognition of acute stroke by emergency department staff following failure to activate stroke by emergency medical services

JC Tennyson, SS Michael, MN Youngren… - Western Journal of …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods We queried our prospective stroke registry to identify consecutive stroke team
activation patients over 12 months and retrospectively reviewed the electronic health record …

Target door-to-needle time for tissue plasminogen activator treatment with magnetic resonance imaging screening can be reduced to 45 min

D Sablot, I Ion, K Khlifa, G Farouil, F Leibinger… - Cerebrovascular …, 2018 - karger.com
Objective: The purpose of this study was to demonstrate that the median door-to-needle
(DTN) time for intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) treatment can be reduced to …

The neurological emergency room and prehospital stroke alert: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts

MJ Binning, G Sanfillippo, W Rosen, M D'Ambrosio… - …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND: Emergency medical services (EMS) prenotification to hospitals regarding
the arrival of patients who have had a stroke is recommended to facilitate the workup once …

Drill down analysis of door-to-needle time of acute ischemic stroke patients treated with intravenous tissue plasminogen activator

JW Schrock, M Lum - The American journal of emergency medicine, 2014 - Elsevier
Objective Target stroke guidelines recommend a door-to-needle time of≤ 60 minutes for
acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients treated with intravenous (IV) tissue-type plasminogen …

Rethinking prehospital stroke notification: assessing utility of emergency medical services impression and cincinnati prehospital stroke scale

SW English, AA Rabinstein, J Mandrekar… - Journal of Stroke and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background and Purpose Although prehospital stroke notification has improved stroke
treatment, incorporation of these systems into existing infrastructure has resulted in new …

Results of a 1-year quality-improvement process to reduce door-to-needle time in acute ischemic stroke with MRI screening

D Sablot, N Gaillard, C Colas, P Smadja, C Gely… - Revue …, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective To determine the effects of a 1-year quality-improvement (QI) process to reduce
door-to-needle (DTN) time in a secondary general hospital in which multimodal MRI …

Barriers to providing prehospital care to ischemic stroke patients: Predictors and impact on care

T Li, JT Cushman, MN Shah, AG Kelly… - … and Disaster Medicine, 2018 - cambridge.org
IntroductionIschemic stroke treatment is time-sensitive, and barriers to providing prehospital
care encountered by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) providers have been under …