Our way to work together with the emergency physicians for the better management of acute stroke victims

Abstract

Having two medical institutes to manage acute stroke victims, we have built a flexible system to exchange patients and information between the two institutes (Hyogo Emergency Medical Center and Kobe Red Cross Hospital) and two departments (the department of emergency medicine and that of neurosurgery). The system is reported here. An interview for 10 emergency physicians about the stroke treatment was conducted to investigate how much the emergency physicians are concerned about stroke and how they think about the system.