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Better stroke care, everywhere: NIH-funded study boosts local hospitals' clotbuster use
Date:12/20/2012

ANN ARBOR, Mich. From the moment a stroke occurs, patients must race against the clock to get treatment that can prevent lasting damage. Now, a new study shows the promise and the challenges of getting them state-of-the-art treatment safely at their local hospital, saving precious minutes.

The results come from an effort that tested methods to improve delivery of a time-sensitive, clot-busting drug in stroke patients at 24 community hospitals across Michigan. To date, clot-busting treatment has been mostly used at larger hospitals.

The research effort was coordinated by members of the University of Michigan Health System's Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Neurology and Stroke Program, which offered half the hospitals education and round-the-clock treatment assistance by phone. The study was funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health.

By the end of the study, the community hospitals across Michigan that had the U-M experts as the "sixth man" on their teams did better at delivering the drug called tPA to eligible patients than those that didn't.

The findings of the randomized controlled trial are published in Lancet-Neurology. They show that community hospitals can indeed improve patients' chances of getting tPA in the first few hours of a stroke, without increased risk of dangerous bleeding.

Data from 22 of the hospitals show that tPA use more than doubled in the 11 hospitals that were randomly chosen to get the extra help, versus a smaller increase in the 11 that didn't. Some hospitals even surpassed national targets for tPA use that large stroke centers don't always reach a true game-changing performance.

Across the U.S., less than 2 percent of stroke patients receive tPA when more than 11 percent could largely because of the time limits on its use and delays in getting patients to a hospital. That's why it's impor
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Contact: Kara Gavin
kegavin@umich.edu
734-764-2220
University of Michigan Health System
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