PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Nyberg, E.M.
AU  - Cox, J.R.
AU  - Kowalski, R.G.
AU  - Duarte, D.V.
AU  - Schimpf, B.
AU  - Jones, W.J.
TI  - Mobile Stroke Unit Reduces Time to Image Acquisition and Reporting
AID  - 10.3174/ajnr.A5673
DP  - 2018 May 17
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/early/2018/05/17/ajnr.A5673.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/early/2018/05/17/ajnr.A5673.full
AB  - SUMMARY: Timely administration of thrombolytic therapy is critical to maximizing the likelihood of favorable outcomes in patients with acute ischemic stroke. Although emergency medical service activation overall improves the timeliness of acute stroke treatment, the time from emergency medical service dispatch to hospital arrival unavoidably decreases the timeliness of thrombolytic administration. Our mobile stroke unit, a new-generation ambulance with on-board CT scanning capability, reduces key imaging time metrics and facilitates in-the-field delivery of IV thrombolytic therapy.EMSemergency medical serviceMSUmobile stroke unit