Acute Stroke Treatment Work Group
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Chair:
Christopher Commichau, MD
Asssociate Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Director, Neurocritical Care & Stroke
Fletcher Allen Health Care
Vermont
Co-Chair:
Vacant
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AHA Representatives:
David Day
V.P. Government Relations and Public Health
Nicole Lukas
Director of Advocacy, VT
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Description of the Group:
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Goals of the Group:
All NECC states should define the criteria a hospital must meet to be an appropriate receiving facility for EMS transport of patients with suspected acute stroke (i.e. acute stroke capable, primary and/or comprehensive stroke centers, designated by the state or other accrediting body). All patients transported by EMS with suspected acute stroke should be preferentially triaged to and treated at acute stroke capable facilities, wherever feasible. States should implement strategies such as telemedicine and air-medical transport if necessary to ensure access to an appropriate level of acute care for all stroke patients.
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Current Project Overview:
The NECC Acute Stroke Treatment Work Group is focusing on developing a project that will examine whether states with a legislative or regulatory mandated Stroke Center Designation program do in fact generate greater outcomes for stroke patients. More specifically, to determine if outcomes are appreciably different within communities that are home to hospitals which participate in a stroke benchmarking program (i.e. GWTG or state designation) in comparison to those that do not.
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