Overview
This study is to investigate clinical efficacy of the pre-hospital triage of patients with suspected acute stroke by using advanced telecommunication tools with digital audio and video real-time streaming.
Description
One of today's main challenges in stroke medicine is to further decrease event-to-treatment-time. On-site, pre-hospital, clinical assessment of patients with suspected acute stroke can optimize further diagnostic and treatment pathways after patient arrival at the dedicated stroke center. A telemedical approach (interactive video and audio streaming) allows time efficient pre-hospital triage, via patient evaluation by simple, pre-defined assessment measures and a standardized questionnaire. This study is to investigate clinical efficacy of the pre-hospital triage of patients with suspected acute stroke by using advanced telecommunication tools with digital audio and video real-time streaming.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- suspected acute stroke as per the first judgement of the paramedics on-site
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with a known history of epilepsia or non-epileptic seizures
- Patients after/while displaying an epileptic seizure
- Recent head trauma
- Patient with a reduced Glasgow Coma Scale or other condition not allowing Rapid Arterial oCclusion Evaluation (RACE) examination