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Abstract TP117: Improving Thrombolysis Door-to-Needle Time With a Multi-Pronged Approach

Stroke Journal

2) Creation of a multidisciplinary Thrombolysis Focus Group to analyze data and improve processes. 2) Creation of a multidisciplinary Thrombolysis Focus Group to analyze data and improve processes. Additional monthly quality improvement meetings were held to discuss all thrombolysis cases with times over our median.

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Abstract TMP33: Recanalization of intracranial vessel occlusion in Acute Ischemic Stroke and Thrombolysis “Dwell Time”

Stroke Journal

Thrombolysis at the spoke hospital with the patient transferred to the hub for MT is a model known as drip-and-ship. Thrombolysis dwell time was defined as the timefrom administration of thrombolysis to repeat vascular imaging. The mean time from LKN to thrombolysis was 2.2 years (range, 25.1 range, 0 to 34). hours vs 2.7

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Abstract TMP13: Prehospital Stroke Scales Are Non-Inferior to NIHSS in Prediction of Intravenous Thrombolysis Use in a Large Telestroke Network

Stroke Journal

Introduction:Recent studies report similar outcomes with antiplatelet drugs and intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) in patients with minor nondisabling ischemic stroke. Stroke, Volume 55, Issue Suppl_1 , Page ATMP13-ATMP13, February 1, 2024. Patients were excluded if they were on anticoagulation, presented beyond 4.5

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Abstract WP202: Thrombectomy versus Combined Thrombolysis and Thrombectomy for Primary Medium and Distal Intracranial Occlusions: A Propensity-Score Matched Multicenter Analysis

Stroke Journal

The role of adjunctive intravenous thrombolysis, such as intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (IVtPA), with MT remains unclear, especially for medium vessel occlusion (MeVO). In univariable regression, all outcomes were comparable between the two groups, except for higher mRS 0-2 rates in the MT+IVtPA group.

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Abstract WP70: Accelerating Stroke Care at an Academic Hospital: Evaluating the Impact of a Launchpad Initiative on Door-to-Needle Times One Year Later

Stroke Journal

Background:Every minute is crucial in treating acute ischemic stroke (AIS), as the effectiveness of intravenous thrombolysis and endovascular therapy is highly time-dependent. Stroke, Volume 56, Issue Suppl_1 , Page AWP70-AWP70, February 1, 2025.

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The pseudo-superiority of pPCI is exposed one more time … but it will thrive!

Dr. S. Venkatesan MD

It is a sad academic story ,most of the interventional cardiology community shrugged it off as a non-event. In this context, we need a movement to revive the pre-hospital thrombolysis. No one knows how the pPCI related delay was legally ratified and academically accepted by the elite cardiology forums.

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Single Bolus r-SAK Before Primary PCI for ST-Segment–Elevation Myocardial Infarction

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

BACKGROUND:It is uncertain whether adjunctive thrombolysis is beneficial for patients with ST-segment–elevation myocardial infarction undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) within 120 minutes of presentation. The median symptom to thrombolysis time was 252.5 minutes and thrombolysis to coronary arteriography was 50.0