Transport considerations for stroke patients

  Keep vital signs stable and send to hospital as soon as possible.  (a) Patients found to be suspicious should be taken directly and smoothly to the emergency room or transported by ambulance by calling emergency services as soon as possible. The patient should be sent to a hospital with emergency conditions (emergency CT examinations and stroke specialists with 24-hour follow-up) for timely treatment, preferably to a hospital with a neurologist or cerebrovascular disease specialist.  (b) Medical institutions need to make a rapid response. Hospitals should develop plans and measures to speed up stroke treatment, including coordination and collaboration between physicians in the relevant departments, emergency and ambulance systems, and give appropriate treatment to stroke patients who will arrive at the hospital.