Nurses Are as Specific and Are Earlier in Calling In-Hospital Stroke Alerts Compared to Physicians

In-hospital stroke alerts are typically activated by nurses or physicians when a patient's neurological status acutely changes from baseline. It is unclear if knowledge of stroke symptoms translates to accurate activation of the acute stroke team. We hypothesized that nurses who activate the stroke alert system would correctly identify as great a proportion of acute strokes as physicians. We also investigated the time to activation of these in-hospital stroke alerts.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - Category: Neurology Authors: Source Type: research