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Aspirin for suspected stroke patients?

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Emergency Medical Services
 Aspririn
 Cardiac Chest Pain
 Paramedic Practice
 Time-to-Treatment
 Stroke
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Journal of Paramedic Practice
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Publications - North East Ambulance Service
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12417/1391
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10.12968/jpar.2023.15.3.98
Abstract
Stroke can be a frustrating condition for paramedics as it feels like there is very little they can do to treat a stroke patient. Once paramedics suspect a patient is having a stroke, minimising on-scene time, rapidly transporting the patient and pre-alerting the specialist stroke unit are the best things they can do. Trials of interventions potentially usable by paramedics such as FAST-MAG (Saver et al, 2014) and RIGHT2 (Bath et al, 2019) have failed to demonstrate improvements in patient outcomes and leave paramedics with the same treatment options they had 20 years ago—none. Abstract published with permission.
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