From Medpage Today:
Stroke patients get faster, better treatment when paramedics send word ahead to alert the hospital that they are coming — a practice recommended in guidelines, but still not done in about a third of cases, researchers found.
Notice from emergency medical services en route shortened door-to-imaging, door-to-needle, and symptom onset-to-needle times significantly, Gregg C. Fonarow, MD, of the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, and colleagues found.
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