Telemedicine versus face-to-face evaluation in the delivery of thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke: A single centre experience

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 88, Issue 1037, 2012, Pages 134-137

  Chowdhury, Muhibbur ^a   Birns, Jonathan ^a   Rudd, Anthony ^a   Bhalla, Ajay ^a  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOM; TELEMEDICINE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; TELEMEDICINE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84857150557     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: 14690756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2011-130060     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Lees KR, Bluhmki E, von Kummer R, et al. Time to treatment with intravenous alteplase and outcome in stroke: an updated pooled analysis of ECASS, ATLANTIS, NINDS, and EPITHET trials. Lancet 2010;375:1695-703.
2. Royal College of Physicians. National Sentinel Stroke Audit. 2010. http://www. rcplondon.ac.uk/resources/national-sentinel-stroke-audit
3. Hacke W, Donnan G, Fieschi C, et al. Association of outcome with early stroke treatment: pooled analysis of ATLANTIS, ECASS, and NINDS rt-PA stroke trials. Lancet 2004;363:768-74.
4. Meyer BC, Raman R, Hemmen T, et al. Efficacy of site-independent telemedicine in the STRokE DOC trial: a randomised, blinded, prospective study. Lancet Neurol 2008;7:787-95.
5. Bonita R, Beaglehole R. Modification of rankin scale: recovery of motor function after stroke. Stroke 1988;19:1497-500.
6. Bamford J, Sandercock P, Dennis M, et al. Classification and natural-history of clinically identifiable subtypes of cerebral infarction. Lancet 1991;337:1521-6.
7. Wahlgren N, Ahmed N, Ďavalos A, et al.; SITS-MOST investigators. Thrombolysis with alteplase for acute ischaemic stroke in the Safe Implementation of Thrombolysis in Stroke-Monitoring Study (SITS-MOST): an observational study. Lancet 2007;369:275-82.
8. Pollock S, Munro N, Hargroves D, et al. Telemedicine is as safe as bedside delivery for thrombolysis in acute stroke. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010; 81:70.
9. Moskowitz A, Chan YY, Bruns J, et al. Emergency physician and stroke specialist beliefs and expectations regarding telestroke. Stroke 2010;41:805-9.
10. Ahmed N, Wahlgren N, Grond M, et al. Implementation and outcome of thrombolysis with alteplase 3-4.5h after an acute stroke: an updated analysis from SITS-ISTR. Lancet Neurol 2010;9:866-74.
11. Audebert HJ, Kukla C, Clarmann von Claranau S, et al; TEMPiS group. Telemedicine for safe and extended use of thrombolysis in stroke: the Telemedic Pilot Project for Integrative stroke care (TEMPiS) in Bavaria. Stroke 2005;36:287-91.
12. Schwamm LH, Holloway RG, Amarenco P, et al. A review of the evidence for the use of telemedicine within stroke systems of care: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association/American stroke Association. Stroke 2009;40:2616-34.
13. Jenkinson D. National Clinical Lead, NHS Stroke Improvement Programme: Governance Issues For Telemedicine in Acute Stroke. 2010. http://www. improvement.nhs.uk/stroke/AcuteStroke/tabid/281/Default.aspx