Background: Canada's vast geography creates challenges for ensuring prompt transport to
hospital of patients who have had a stroke. We sought to determine the proportion of people …

Background The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to determine the percentage of
the US population with 60 min ground or air access to accredited or state-designated …

Background: Hyperacute stroke is a time-sensitive emergency for which outcomes improve
with faster treatment. When stroke systems are accessed via emergency medical services …

Background: Optimal stroke care requires access to resources such as neuroimaging, acute
revascularization, rehabilitation, and stroke prevention services, which may not be available …

Background In 2010, rapid access to stroke thrombolysis centres was limited in some
regional areas in the Australian state of Victoria. These results, and planning for …

Introduction Endovascular thrombectomy was recently established as a new standard of
care in acute ischemic stroke patients with large artery occlusions. Using small area health …

Background: Despite recent advances in acute stroke therapy, only a small proportion of
patients with acute ischemic stroke receive IV and endovascular revascularization therapies …

Noteworthy advances in the care of patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) have occurred
in the past 5 years. In 2015, studies of endovascular therapy (EVT) for patients with AIS due …

Purpose Both intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) and intra-arterial endovascular thrombectomy
(ET) improve the outcome of patients with acute ischaemic stroke, with endovascular …

Background: Endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) has revolutionized ischemic stroke care.
We aimed to assess whether neighbourhood socioeconomic status is predictive of access to …