Over half of stroke patients not arriving quickly enough to hospital for effective emergency treatment
Pilot for ambulance bypass to thrombectomy stroke centres in Dublin and Cork urged Less than half of stroke cases (49%) arrived at hospital within three hours of onset of stroke symptoms, the first Irish National Audit of Stroke Report 2019, published by the National Office of Clinical Audit today (December 16), has found. This meant that slightly over half of 4,275 cases from 20 hospitals evaluated in the audit, arrived over three hours after the onset of symptoms and were less likely to receive effective emergency treatments Key findings revealed the median time from presenting at hospital, to contact with the medical team, was 17 minutes and that two-thirds of patients were seen by a doctor within one hour of arrival at hospital.