Are Acute Stroke-Ready Hospitals Ready?

Are acute stroke-ready hospitals ready?

I n 2005, an American Stroke Association Task Force report described the rationale and components of an integrated stroke system of care extending from primordial prevention through primary prevention, acute management, secondary prevention, and poststroke rehabilitation and recovery. 1 The principle that optimal patient outcomes depend on the consistent implementation of care processes that ar...

Global Health Governance Challenges 2016 – Are We Ready?

The year 2016 could turn out to be a turning point for global health, new political realities and global insecurities will test governance and financing mechanisms in relation to both people and planet. But most importantly political factors such as the global power shift and “the rise of the rest” will define the future of global health. A new mix of health inequity and security challenges has...

Are we ready to translate T-cell transmigration in stroke?

Formation and function of acute stroke-ready hospitals within a stroke system of care recommendations from the brain attack coalition.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Many patients with an acute stroke live in areas without ready access to a Primary or Comprehensive Stroke Center. The formation of care facilities that meet the needs of these patients might improve their care and outcomes and guide them and emergency responders to such centers within a stroke system of care. METHODS The Brain Attack Coalition conducted an electronic s...

Bridging therapy in acute ischemic stroke: are we ready for a new standard of care?

See related article, pages 993–997. Sixteen years after the results of The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke rtPA Stroke Study, intravenous alteplase (IV tissue plasminogen activator [tPA]) is still the unique recommended therapy for patients with acute ischemic stroke.1 Since 1995, no other acute stroke therapy has replaced this gold standard, but is IV tPA really a silve...