• Prehosp Disaster Med · Oct 2018

    Multicenter Study

    Barriers to Providing Prehospital Care to Ischemic Stroke Patients: Predictors and Impact on Care.

    • Timmy Li, Jeremy T Cushman, Manish N Shah, Adam G Kelly, David Q Rich, and Jones Courtney M C CMC 2Department of Emergency Medicine,University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry,Rochester,New YorkUSA..
    • 1Department of Emergency Medicine,Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell,Manhasset,New YorkUSA.
    • Prehosp Disaster Med. 2018 Oct 1; 33 (5): 501-507.

    AbstractIntroductionIschemic stroke treatment is time-sensitive, and barriers to providing prehospital care encountered by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) providers have been under-studied.Hypothesis/ProblemThis study described barriers to providing prehospital care, identified predictors of these barriers, and assessed the impact of these barriers on EMS on-scene time and administration of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) in the emergency department (ED).

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