Evaluation of direct-to-angiography suite (DTAS) and conventional clinical pathways in stroke care: a simulation study

Conclusions The results of the SimStroke model showed comparable time intervals for door-to-reperfusion for DTAS compared with a conventional stroke care pathway. However, the DTAS pathway was very sensitive to baseline angiography suite utilization, with even a 10% increase eliminating the advantages of DTAS compared with the conventional pathway. Given the minimal time savings modeled here, further investigation of implementing the DTAS pathway in clinical care is warranted.

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Source: Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery - November 14, 2022 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Bastani, M., White, T. G., Martinez, G., Ohara, J., Sangha, K., Gribko, M., Katz, J. M., Woo, H. H., Boltyenkov, A. T., Wang, J., Rula, E., Naidich, J. J., Sanelli, P. C. Tags: Ischemic stroke Source Type: research