For a patient presenting to the emergency department within three hours of acute ischemic stroke (aphasia, right‑side weakness) with no contraindications to tissue‑type plasminogen activator and no large‑vessel occlusion, and whose legally authorized relative cannot be reached, should intravenous thrombolytic therapy be administered under emergency (implied) consent?

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