I hate these feel good articles because they make it sound like stroke is no big deal if you get to a stroke ready hospital fast enough. What a crock of shit. tPA fully reverses the stroke only 12% of the time.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-fast-track-to-treatment-for-stroke-patients-1425338329
In the Target Stroke program, sponsored by the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association, the number of patients treated within 60 minutes of arrival at the ER increased to 60% at the end of 2014, from 30% in 2010, says Lee Schwamm, a leader of the program and chief of stroke services at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Notice that this only says treated, not successfully treated.
Treated? My guess is that it took most of that 60 minutes to get a diagnosis.
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