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AIMHI in EMS1: Reducing door-to-drug times for stroke patients

5 Oct 2020 4:28 PM | AIMHI Admin (Administrator)

From EMS1 | By Chuck Gipson, Medic EMS

Thinking outside the box can lead to untapped potential from a previously overlooked resource. All of our agencies have a dispatch center of some sort that gets the right resources to the right place at the right time. Right? That call taker is the first person to make contact with the patient after the 911 system is activated. Many times as EMS providers, we forget the care that gets delivered to that patient before the first response vehicle ever arrives on scene.

Elapsed time is a big factor in the outcomes for stroke patients as a stroke occurs roughly every 40 seconds, 87% of which are thrombolytic in nature.

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