Title: ED Pharmacist on Time to Thrombolysis<br/>Author: WanTsu Wendy Chang<br/><a href='http://umem.org/profiles/faculty/1322/'>[Click to email author]</a><hr/><p>
<span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>Impact of an ED pharmacist on time to thrombolysis in acute ischemic stroke</strong></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Prior studies showed that incorporation of ED pharmacists within ED clinical teams lead to more rapid treatment of trauma, stroke, and STEMI.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size:14px;">A recent retrospective study conducted by Montgomery <em>et al.</em> showed that having an ED pharmacist on the stroke alert team increased the number of patients meeting goal door-to-needle time of 60 minutes.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family:gotham, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Montgomery K, Hall AB, Keriazes G. Impact of an emergency medicine pharmacist on time to thrombolysis in acute ischemic stroke. <em>Am J Emerg Med</em> 2016;34:1997-9.</span></p>
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