Association Between Use of a Flying Intervention Team vs Patient Interhospital Transfer and Time to Endovascular Thrombectomy Among Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke in Nonurban Germany.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The benefit of endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) for acute ischemic stroke is highly time-dependent, and it is challenging to expedite treatment for patients in remote areas.

Objective

To determine whether deployment of a flying intervention team, compared with patient interhospital transfer, is associated with a shorter time to endovascular thrombectomy and improved clinical outcomes for patients with acute ischemic stroke.

Design, setting, and participants

This was a nonrandomized controlled intervention study comparing 2 systems of care in alternating weeks. The study was conducted in a nonurban region in Germany including 13 primary telemedicine-assisted stroke centers within a telestroke network. A total of 157 patients with acute ischemic stroke for who

SUBMITTER: Hubert GJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9092197 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature