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Abstract 175: Faster Prehospital Workflow in the Melbourne Mobile Stroke Unit Halves Onset to Reperfusion Therapy
Henry Zhao, Skye Coote, Francesca Langenberg, Damien Easton, Lindsay Bent, Shane Foster, Michael Stephenson, Karen Smith, Stephen Bernard, Christopher Bladin, Dominique Cadilhac, Vincent Thijs, Bronwyn Coulton, Mark Brooks, Hamed Asadi, Felix Ng, Patricia Desmond, Peter Mitchell, Bernard Yan, Bruce C Campbell Show all
Stroke | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | Published : 2019
Abstract
Background: The Melbourne Mobile Stroke Unit (MSU) utilises a specialised ambulance with on-board CT scanner and multidisciplinary team to provide on-scene imaging, treatment and triage for central Melbourne, Australia. We describe the operational impact of the MSU on stroke onset to treatment time for acute reperfusion therapy. Methods: Data from the first 6 months of operation were collected for all patients receiving reperfusion therapy from November 2017. Workflow times were compared to contemporary published Australian data and ambulance travel times were derived using a validated Google Maps algorithm. ..
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