Emergency Physicians Can and Should Treat Acute Stroke!
- by: The NECC
- recipient: ACEP's Proposed Clinical Policy for tPA use in Acute Ischemic Stroke
On behalf of the NorthEast Cerebrovascular Consortium (NECC), we urge you to reconsider publishing the proposed Clinical Policy document regarding the use of intravenous tPA for Acute Ischemic Stroke (AIS). This change will downgrade the efficacy rating for tPA in the ACEP guidelines.
Much progress has been made over the past decade in the management of AIS patients exemplified by the fact that stroke has recently dropped from the nation’s fourth leading cause of death to number 5 according to new federal statistics. Emergency Medicine Physicians are a critical link in the stroke chain-of-survival and integral to the success of Stroke Systems of Care Models. We are concerned that the proposed Clinical Policy Statement of ACEP will undermine recent advances in stroke care and have a detrimental influence on eligible patients receiving IV TPA in a time sensitive fashion.
Please sign onto this petition that will be shared with ACEP March 12, 2015 asking them to keep the current Clinical Policy regarding the use of intravenous tPA for Acute Ischemic Stroke.
Thank you!
The NorthEast Cerebrovascular Consortium (NECC)
On behalf of the NorthEast Cerebrovascular Consortium (NECC), we urge you to reconsider publishing the proposed Clinical Policy document regarding the use of intravenous tPA for Acute Ischemic Stroke (AIS). This change will downgrade the efficacy rating for tPA in the ACEP guidelines. Much progress has been made over the past decade in the management of AIS patients exemplified by the fact that stroke has recently dropped from the nation’s fourth leading cause of death to number 5 according to new federal statistics. Emergency Medicine Physicians are a critical link in the stroke chain-of-survival and integral to the success of Stroke Systems of Care Models. We are concerned that the proposed Clinical Policy Statement of ACEP will undermine recent advances in stroke care and have a detrimental influence on eligible patients receiving IV TPA in a time sensitive fashion. Attached is a petition signed by some of our members asking that you keep the current Clinical Policy regarding the use of intravenous tPA for Acute Ischemic Stroke.
Thank you!
The NorthEast Cerebrovascular Consortium (NECC)
