Standard contraindications to tPA were present in 74 patients (20 on oral anticoagulation, 20 with extensive hypodensity on brain NCCT, 31 patients outside the tPA time window, 1 postsurgical stroke, 1 previous severe gastro‐intestinal bleed, and 1 had refractory acute hypertension despite treatment. Here, PLAT is linked to Stroke.