Authors
Thanh N Nguyen, Mohamad Abdalkader, Tudor G Jovin, Raul G Nogueira, Ashutosh P Jadhav, Diogo C Haussen, Ameer E Hassan, Roberta Novakovic, Sunil A Sheth, Santiago Ortega-Gutierrez, Peter D Panagos, Steve M Cordina, Italo Linfante, Ossama Yassin Mansour, Amer M Malik, Sandra Narayanan, Hesham E Masoud, Sherry Hsiang-Yi Chou, Rakesh Khatri, Vallabh Janardhan, Dileep R Yavagal, Osama O Zaidat, David M Greer, David S Liebeskind
Publication date
2020/6
Source
Stroke
Volume
51
Issue
6
Pages
1896-1901
Publisher
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Description
If there is a positive screen, this patient should wear a surgical mask and be placed in isolation in a negative pressure room. If telecommunication (phone±video) is available, it should be utilized. Identify the minimum number of providers needed to care for the patient and wear PPE for any patient contact.
If there is a positive pulmonary symptom, consider noncontrast chest CT at the same time as head and neck CT/CTA, provided this addition does not incur> 5 min delay. Note, if a patient is received in transfer from another hospital or has already returned from radiology, chest CT should not be performed before reperfusion therapies such as intravenous thrombolysis nor thrombectomy.*
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