March 17, 2021 Getting patients with acute ischemic stroke treated more rapidly—either through the use of a mobile stroke unit or by taking them directly to the angiography suite—increases the number of patients who receive proven therapies and improves clinical outcomes, show two trials presented during the virtual International Stroke Conference 2021 this week. In the BEST-MSU study, patients initially treated in a mobile stroke unit equipped with mobile CT and able to administer tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) were more likely to receive it within the first “golden hour” and had better functional outcomes at 90 days compared with patients taken to the hospital in a standard ambulance, James Grotta, MD (Memorial Hermann – Texas Medical Center, Houston), reported.