Door-to-Needle Times

Door-to-Needle Times: Let's Not Leave Smaller Hospitals Behind.

Improving Door-to-Needle Times for Acute Ischemic Stroke

Faster treatment with intravenous alteplase (tissue-type plasminogen activator) results in better outcomes. Although the benchmark door-to-needle time (DTN) has been set at 60 minutes, many centers have been able to exceed this benchmark with median times from 20 to 51 minutes. These local efforts have been supported by national and international efforts to reduce DTN time. For example, the Ame...

Emergency department thrombolysis improves door to needle times.

OBJECTIVE To identify the effect on door to needle (DTN) time of moving the site of thrombolysis delivery from the coronary care unit (CCU) to the emergency department (ED). To ascertain if moving the site of thrombolysis enables appropriate use of thrombolysis. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING CCU and ED of a 450 bed Scottish district general hospital without on-site primary angiop...

Improving door to needle times with nurse initiated thrombolysis.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of nurse initiated thrombolysis on door to needle time (the interval between arriving at the hospital and starting thrombolytic treatment) in patients with acute myocardial infarction. DESIGN Comparison of door to needle times before and after the employment of nurses trained and approved to initiate thrombolysis without prescription by a doctor but with a pro...

door to electrocardiography (ecg) and needle times in patients with myocardial infarction

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