Recognizing Pearls and Pitfalls in The Emergency Medicine Department During Initiation of a New Stroke Thrombolysis Service

Abstract

Strokes are a common presentation to emergency departments all over the world. Early recognition of strokes is essential which is followed by ruling out stroke mimics, going for a radiologic investigation and decision making for thrombolysis. To create a fully functioning Neuro emergency stroke team in assisting in stroke thrombolysis, a dry run was done for a month in the emergency department which saw the common challenges and pitfalls to tackle before the actual thrombolysis is started to prevent or minimize the risk of complications of stroke management.