Prehospital stroke diagnostics using three different simulation methods: A pragmatic pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The optimal pathway for ultra-early diagnostics and treatment in patients with acute stroke remains uncertain. The aim of this study was to investigate how three different methods of simulated, rural prehospital computed tomography (CT) affected the time to prehospital treatment decision in acute stroke.

Materials and methods

In this pragmatic, simulation, pilot study of prehospital CT we investigated a conventional ambulance with transport to a standard care rural stationary CT machine managed by paramedics, a Mobile Stroke Unit (MSU), and a helicopter with a simulated CT machine. Each modality completed 20 real-life dispatches combined with simulation of predetermined animated patient cases with acute stroke symptoms and CT images. The primary endpoint of the

SUBMITTER: Christensen E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11569525 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature