Singapore General Hospital (SGH) says it has reduced the median time from patient arrival to the start of stroke treatment to 82 minutes. The change follows an operational redesign that places neurovascular services within the emergency department (ED), aiming to remove delays linked to moving patients across the campus for endovascular thrombectomy.
The hospital attributes the faster turnaround to a new integrated ED and National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) facility that centralises stroke imaging and intervention on a single floor, including an angiography room inside the ED. SGH also expanded acute-care capacity, including more triage rooms and additional intensive care and resuscitation spaces, and reports that digital tools support the workflow, such as AI-assisted imaging analysis and telemedicine triage.
The Straits Times highlights the overall impact in its brief framing, describing that the new SGH and NNI building “slashes” treatment times and that the workflows are patient-centred. PravdaReport provides more detailed figures and the specific mechanism—eliminating transfer logistics by co-locating intervention with triage and diagnosis.
