Telestroke Assessment With Perfusion CT Improves the Diagnostic Accuracy of Stroke vs. Mimic.

CT perfusion (CTP) has been implemented widely in regional areas of Australia for telestroke assessment. The aim of this study was to determine if, as part of telestroke assessment, CTP provided added benefit to clinical features in distinguishing between strokes and mimic and between transient ischaemic attack (TIA) and mimic. We retrospectively analysed 1,513 consecutively recruited patients referred to the Northern New South Wales Telestroke service, where CTP is performed as a part of telestroke assessment.

The Need for Structured Strategies to Improve Stroke Care in a Rural Telestroke Network in Northern New South Wales, Australia: An Observational Study.

A telestroke network in Northern New South Wales, Australia has been developed since 2017. We theorized that the telestroke network development would drive a progressive improvement in stroke care metrics over time. This study aimed to describe changes in acute stroke workflow metrics over time to determine whether they improved with network experience.

Air vs. Road Decision for Endovascular Clot Retrieval in a Rural Telestroke Network.

Telestroke aims to increase access to endovascular clot retrieval (ECR) for rural areas. There is limited information on transfer workflow for ECR in rural settings. We sought to describe the transfer metrics for ECR in a rural telestroke network with respect to decision making.

No Evidence of the "Weekend Effect" in the Northern New South Wales Telestroke Network.

Admission outside normal business hours has been associated with prolonged door-to-treatment times and poorer patient outcomes, the so called "weekend effect. " This is the examination of the weekend effect in a telestroke service that uses multi-modal computed tomography. To examine differences in workflow and triage between in-hours and out-of-hours calls to a telestroke service.