Mobile Stroke Unit Operational Metrics: Institutional Experience, Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The available literature on mobile stroke units (MSU) has focused on clinical outcomes, rather than operational performance. Our objective was to establish normalized metrics and to conduct a meta-analysis of the current literature on MSU performance.

Methods

Our MSU in upstate New York serves 741,000 people. We present prospectively collected, retrospectively analyzed data from the inception of our MSU in October of 2018, through March of 2021. Rates of transportation/dispatch and MSU utilization were reported. We also performed a meta-analysis using MEDLINE, SCOPUS, and Cochrane Library databases, calculating rates of tPA/dispatch, tPA-per-24-operational-hours ("per day"), mechanical thrombectomy (MT)/dispatch and MT/day.

Results

Our MSU was dispatched 1,

SUBMITTER: Ellens NR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9124821 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature