The 2022 update of the Canadian Stroke Best Practice Recommendations (CSBPR) for
Acute Stroke Management, 7th edition, is a comprehensive summary of current evidence …

Acute stroke care begins before hospital arrival, and several prehospital factors are critical in
influencing overall patient care and poststroke outcomes. This topical review provides an …

BACKGROUND: Emergency medical services (EMS) is an important link in the stroke chain
of recovery. Various prehospital quality metrics have been proposed for prehospital stroke …

Objectives To delineate diurnal variation onset distinguishing ischemic from hemorrhagic
stroke, wake from sleep onset, and weekdays from weekends/holidays. Materials and …

The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed over one million lives in the United States and has
drastically changed how patients interact with the healthcare system. Emergency medical …

Purpose Early recognition and prompt prehospital care is a cornerstone of acute stroke
treatment. Residents of rural areas have worse access to stroke services than urban …

Objective Arrival by emergency medical services (EMS) and prenotification among ischemic
stroke patients are well-established to improve the timeliness and quality of stroke care, yet …

Background There are significant racial and ethnic disparities in receipt of reperfusion
interventions for acute ischemic stroke. Our objective was to determine whether there are …

Ischemic stroke is defined as neurological deficit caused by brain infarction. The intravenous
tissue plasminogen activator, alteplase, is an effective treatment. However, efficacy of this …

Objectives: Notification by emergency medical services (EMS) to the destination hospital of
an incoming suspected stroke patient is associated with timelier in-hospital evaluation and …