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Mobile Stroke Unit Reduces Time to Image Acquisition and Reporting

2018; American Society of Neuroradiology; Volume: 39; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3174/ajnr.a5673

1936-959X

Eric Nyberg, Jennifer Cox, Robert G. Kowalski, Daniel Vela‐Duarte, Brandi Schimpf, William Jones,

Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery

SUMMARY: Timely administration of thrombolytic therapy is critical to maximizing the likelihood of favorable outcomes in patients with acute ischemic stroke. Although emergency medical service activation overall improves the timeliness of acute stroke treatment, the time from emergency medical service dispatch to hospital arrival unavoidably decreases the timeliness of thrombolytic administration. Our mobile stroke unit, a new-generation ambulance with on-board CT scanning capability, reduces key imaging time metrics and facilitates in-the-field delivery of IV thrombolytic therapy.