Abstract Objective Shoalhaven District Memorial Hospital is a rural (MM3) secondary
hospital which is over an hour travel time from the nearest tertiary centre. The objective of …

Introduction: Intrahospital time delays significantly affect neurological outcome of stroke
patients with large vessel occlusion. Conventional imaging prior to thrombectomy leads to …

BACKGROUND: Rapid care protocols developed to reduce in-hospital delay times in the
assessment of acute stroke patients are now common in Emergency Departments. Correct …

Objectives: To measure the performance of selected Italian emergency medical system
(EMS) dispatch centres managing calls for patients suffering from stroke. Data on outcome …

Background and Purpose: Field Assessment Stroke Triage for Emergency Destination
(FAST-ED) scale is a helpful tool to triage patients with stroke in the field. However, data on …

Background Evaluation of patients with a suspected stroke is one of the most common
neurological emergencies requiring rapid, comprehensive assessment by the stroke service …

Background and Purpose—We examined patient demographic and hospital characteristics
and clinical predictors of delay time from hospital arrival until CT among 20 374 patients …

Objectives Immediate ischemic stroke treatment improves outcomes and early alteplase
administration is recommended for patients within window. We implemented stroke …

Background As part of the recommendations of the current guidelines for the management of
acute stroke, hospitals must create efficient pathways and processes to rapidly identify and …

Background Management of acute ischaemic stroke is time critical. Reducing time to
treatment with thrombolysis is strongly associated with improved outcomes in properly …