Chinese Stroke Association guidelines on emergency stroke unit
Organised stroke care has become a keystone in delivering efficient and effective treatment to patients with stroke with improved outcomes. Delivering timely acute reperfusion therapy to those with acute ischaemic strokes is key to good recovery. Emergency stroke unit (ESU) is a novel organised stroke care system developed in China. It centralises all necessary procedures for the diagnosis and treatment of acute stroke into one unit that can perform clinical assessment, imaging examination and acute treatments. In ESU, artificial intelligence algorithms are used to aid in reading brain images and making clinical decisions. Therefore, ESU can significantly enhance the efficiency of emergent stroke care. In this guideline, we aim to clarify the concept, construction standards and personnel requirements of an ESU, standardise ESU-based acute stroke triage and treatment workflow, establish metrics of quality control, facilitate the construction and promotion of ESU and continue the improvement of the quality of stroke care.
Authors
- Xinyi Leng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7300-6647)
- Xuewei Xie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8154-1957)
- Yongjun Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9976-2341)
- David Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2277-4608)
- Jing Jing (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9822-5758)
Institutions
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- Illinois College (US)
- Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Capital Medical University (CN)
- University of Illinois Chicago (US)
- Beijing Tian Tan Hospital (CN)
- National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Stroke and Vascular Neurology
- Published
- 2024-12-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1136/svn-2024-003935
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.93
Funders
- Wenzhou Medical University
- Beihang University
- Capital Medical University
- Fudan University
- Zhejiang University
- Nantong University
- Wuhan University
- Huashan Hospital
- Guizhou Medical University
- Hebei Medical University
- Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University
- Renji Hospital
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Beijing Tian Tan Hospital, Capital Medical University