I arrived at the hospital at 8am Sunday morning, took 90 minutes to puncture time. No idea if mine was a large vessel occlusion, I do know it was a MCA on the right side but my doctors never showed me my scan with an arrow pointing directly to the epicenter. Never told me the diameter, the location or anything at all. If my doctors did anything useful the couple of weeks I was in the hospital I couldn't tell.
Regardless of when you present to the hospital; by following EXACTLY THE WRITTEN PROTOCOLS, it should make no difference when you present there. Without that, YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO HAVE YOUR STROKE AT THE CORRECT TIME and with the correct visible disabilities so you can be treated correctly. YOUR RESPONSIBILITY!
Off-hour effect on time metrics and clinical outcomes in endovascular treatment for large vessel occlusion: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Abstract
Background
There is an ongoing debate on the off-hour effect on endovascular treatment (EVT) for acute large vessel occlusion (LVO).
Aim
This meta-analysis aimed to compare time metrics and clinical outcomes of acute LVO patients who presented/were treated during off-hour with those during working hours.
Summary of review
Structured searches on the PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and Cochrane Library databases were conducted through 23 February 2021. The primary outcomes were onset to door (OTD), door to imaging, door to puncture (DTP), puncture to recanalization, procedural time, successful recanalization, symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage (SICH), mortality in hospital, good prognosis (90-day modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score 0–2), and 90-day mortality. The secondary outcomes were imaging to puncture (ITP), onset to puncture (OTP), onset to recanalization (OTR), door to recanalization (DTR) time, mRS 0–2 at discharge, and consecutive 90-day mRS score. The odds ratio (OR) and weighted mean difference (WMD) with 95% confidence interval (CI) of the outcomes were calculated using random-effect models. Heterogenicity and publication bias were analyzed. Subgroup and sensitivity analyses were conducted as appropriate. Nineteen studies published between 2014 and 2021 with a total of 14,185 patients were eligible for quantitative synthesis. Patients in the off-hour group were significantly younger than those in the on-hour group and with comparable stroke severity and intravenous thrombolysis rate. The off-hour group had longer OTD (WMD [95% CI], 12.83 [1.84–23.82] min), DTP (WMD [95% CI], 11.45 [5.93–16.97] min), ITP (WMD [95% CI], 10.39 [4.61–16.17] min), OTP (WMD [95% CI], 25.30 [13.11–37.50] min), OTR (WMD [95% CI], 25.16 [10.28–40.04] min), and DTR (WMD [95% CI], 18.02 [10.01–26.03] min) time. Significantly lower successful recanalization rate (OR [95% CI], 0.85 [0.76–0.95]; p = 0.004; I2 = 0%) was detected in the off-hour group. No significant difference was noted regarding SICH and prognosis. But a trend toward lower OR of good prognosis was witnessed in the off-hour group (OR [95% CI], 0.92 [0.84–1.01]; p = 0.084; I2 = 0%).
Conclusions
Patients
who presented/were treated during off-hour were associated with
excessive delays before the initiation of EVT, lower successful
reperfusion rate, and a trend toward worse prognosis when compared with
working hours. Optimizing the workflows of EVT during off-hour is
needed.(That is called protocols.)
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