• Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am · Dec 2014

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    Stroke care using a hub and spoke model with telemedicine.

    • Penny Huddleston and Mary Beth Zimmermann.
    • Department of Administration, Baylor Medical Center at Irving, 1901 N. MacArthur Boulevard, Irving, TX 75061, USA. Electronic address: PennyHu@BaylorHealth.edu.
    • Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am. 2014 Dec 1; 26 (4): 469-75.

    AbstractStroke is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. On average, someone has a stroke every 40 seconds. The gaps for patients diagnosed with a stroke are the availability of physicians who specialize in stroke care and access to evidence-based stroke care. Telemedicine has assisted in bridging this gap to provide effective stroke treatment. The purpose of this article is to describe how the implementation of a hub and spoke model using telemedicine has assisted in increasing patient access to neurology expertise and receiving evidence-based treatment of recombinant tissue plasminogen activator, thereby improving patient outcomes.Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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