2021 Volume 38 Issue 3 Pages 292-296
Since 2009, the city of Yokohama has been operating the Yokohama Emergency Medical System for Cerebrovascular Diseases, which consists of 31 medical institutions and is integrated with the administrative agencies responsible for emergency transport. The system is designed to transport emergency patients suspected of having cerebrovascular disease to facilities capable of administering intravenous rt–PA or thrombus retrieval therapy as soon as possible. Since its inception, the number of eligible patients has been increasing. A liaison meeting with each participating medical institution, with the administrative body as the secretariat, consolidates and reviews clinical data on the number of patients, treatment details, time required for intravenous rt–PA and thrombectomy, and prognosis after 3 months, and publishes the results on the Yokohama City website.
We believe that the establishment of a system for collecting medical information on acute stroke patients, sharing it among related institutions, and verifying it will contribute to the development of acute stroke care in the future.
