Stroke Training and Awareness Resources (STARs)

Review of Vera’s pathway – drip and ship

  • Drip & Ship is likely to be the commonest pathway in a national thrombectomy service
  • It relies on excellent coordination between teams working in SAS, spoke and hub hospitals
  • It makes common protocols, assessments, documentation and treatments essential because patients are transferring between hospitals
  • Capture of data to monitor the performance of the service to help to optimise delays
    • SAS – pre hospital, inter hospital and repatriation delays
    • Spokes – DTN, time in, time out, repatriation delays
    • Hubs – DTN, Door to puncture (DTP) (for local and drip & ship pts), repatriation delays

Vera’s pathway

Vera's pathway