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Bringing stroke patients straight to the angiography suite of a hospital capable of endovascular therapy reduced hospital delays and improved care for people with suspected large vessel occlusions (LVOs) who were admitted within 6 hours of symptom onset, a randomized trial indicated.
Following the mantra time is brain, the strategy of skipping the emergency department and usual CT scanner brought down time from door to arterial puncture to a median 18 minutes from 42 minutes with standard management (
P 0.001); similarly, time from door to reperfusion fell to 57 minutes from 84 minutes (
P 0.001).
Additionally, all of the roughly 85% of people with confirmed LVOs received endovascular therapy after direct transfer to the angiography suite versus 88% with usual care in the ANGIOCAT trial, reported Manuel Requena, MD, PhD, of Vall d Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona, Spain, during a late-breaking scientific session at the American Stroke Association Int