Time delays in emergency stroke care in a low-resource referral hospital in Ghana
Significant delays occurred in all stages of stroke care at KATH's ED. Improving stroke education and implementing contextually appropriate stroke codes can enable early patient presentations, improve intervention times, and reduce mortality rates.
Authors
- Rockefeller Oteng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3068-6571)
- Jonathan Boakye-Yiadom (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1733-7200)
- Fred Stephen Sarfo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7274-5093)
- Richmond O Marfo
- Hussein A Yakubu
- Freda M Aidoo
Institutions
- University of Michigan (US)
- Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (GH)
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (GH)
Publication Details
- Journal
- African Journal of Emergency Medicine
- Published
- 2025-06-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.afjem.2025.05.006
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.71
Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke