Emergency and stroke physician combined consensus statement on thrombolysis for acute stroke.

The New Zealand Faculty of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) is the professional body representing the specialist emergency medicine physicians who work in and lead emergency departments of New Zealand. The National Stroke Network Leadership Group represents New Zealand stroke clinicians including stroke physicians and neurologists who work within and lead district health board (DHB) stroke services. In an effort to promote their shared goal of ensuring patient safety while striving to achieve improved stroke outcomes, the two communities have set up a consensus group to develop this combined emergency physician and neurologist/stroke physician consensus statement on the use of intravenous alteplase in stroke ('stroke thrombolysis').