Long Distance Air Ambulance Transfers for Endovascular Thrombectomy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) is limited to comprehensive stroke centers (CSCs), with patients who first present to primary stroke centers (PSCs) transferred for treatment by road ambulance or helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS). We aimed to determine if there were outcome differences in patients transferred for EVT via HEMS.

Methods

A retrospective observational study was performed in the setting of a large regional network with 1 CSC receiving patients directly, or via road ambulance from 3 metropolitan PSCs or HEMS from 13 more distant PSCs. Consecutive patients were identified from a mandatory national EVT registry. HEMS transfers were compared with 2 metropolitan patient groups: direct-to-CSC and metro PSC-to-CSC patients. The primary outcome was d

SUBMITTER: Yong VTY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12778727 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature