Anantbir S Randhawa, Fatima Pariona-Vargas, Sidney Starkman, Nerses Sanossian, David S Liebeskind, Gilda Avila, Samuel Stratton, Jeffrey Gornbein, Latisha Sharma, Lucas Restrepo-Jimenez, Miguel Valdes-Sueiras, May Kim-Tenser, Pablo Villablanca, Robin Conwit, Scott Hamilton, Jeffrey L Saver
BACKGROUND: To emphasize treatment speed for time-sensitive conditions, emergency medicine has developed not only the concept of the golden hour, but also the platinum half-hour. Patients with acute stroke treated within the first half-hour of onset have not been previously characterized. METHODS: In this cohort study, we analyzed patients enrolled in the FAST-MAG (Field Administration of Stroke Therapy-Magnesium) trial, testing paramedic prehospital start of neuroprotective agent ≤2 hours of onset...
August 2022: Stroke; a Journal of Cerebral Circulation