Reducing Door-to-Puncture Times for Intra-Arterial Stroke Therapy: A Pilot Quality Improvement Project [Stroke]

Conclusions In-hospital delays are a major obstacle to timely IAT. A simple approach for achieving substantial time savings is to mobilize the NI and anesthesia teams during patient evaluation and treatment decision making. This parallel workflow resulted in a >30-minute (25%) reduction in median door-to-puncture times.

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Source: JAHA:Journal of the American Heart Association - November 11, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Mehta, B. P., Leslie-Mazwi, T. M., Chandra, R. V., Bell, D. L., Sun, C.-H. J., Hirsch, J. A., Rabinov, J. D., Rost, N. S., Schwamm, L. H., Goldstein, J. N., Levine, W. C., Gupta, R., Yoo, A. J. Tags: Stroke Source Type: research