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- Published on: 9 January 2022
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- Published on: 9 January 2022Re: New performance indicator should take account of prehospital thrombolysisShow More
Dear Editor
As John Rawles states, the benefit of prehospital thrombolysis could be much greater than the FTT estimate for hospital treated patients of 1.6 lives/1000 treated per hour of delay [1]. Indeed, the "golden hour" [2] may even be extended to the "golden two hours" as Rawles' own seminal work suggests [3]. The point we were trying to make in the SHARP report [4] was that 30/1000 is the most that can be ex...
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None declared. - Published on: 9 January 2022New performance indicator should take account of prehospital thrombolysisDear EditorShow More
Robin Norris and the SHARP Investigators are to be congratulated on another study that is full of interest [1]. The new performance indicator proposed is, indeed, very attractive. Quite correctly, the number of lives saved by hospital thrombolysis is calculated using the figure of 30/1000 derived from hospital trials. But there is one point on which I must take issue, and that is the additional life-saving fr...
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