Stroke patient's alarm choice: General practitioner or emergency medical services.
T Truc My NguyenNyika D KruytJorien G J PierikCarine J M DoggenPeter van der LugtSaager A V RamessersingNaomi T WijersPaul J A M BrouwersMarieke J H WermerHeleen M den HertogPublished in: Acta neurologica Scandinavica (2020)
Our results showed that patients who alarmed the GP first instead of the EMS differed in several factors that are potentially modifiable. Strategies to achieve reduction of vital prehospital time delays and to improve patient outcome are optimizing public awareness campaigns and GP triage along with adjusting current guidelines by enabling and focusing on immediate involvement of the EMS once acute stroke is suspected.