Improving the Prehospital Identification and Acute Care of Acute Stroke Patients: A Quality Improvement Project.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are a large number of stroke patients in China, and there is currently a lack of prehospital acute stroke care training programs.

Aim

To develop a prehospital emergency medical service (PEMS) training program to improve the prehospital identification and acute care of acute stroke.

Methods

Forty prehospital emergency doctors whose service stations are located within a 10 km radius from Shanghai Pudong New Area Medical Emergency Service Center took this course on November 13, 2014. A questionnaire was designed to evaluate the PEMS personnel's knowledge in stroke and acute stroke care and was conducted before and after training as an assessment of the effectiveness of training. The patient population in this study included a baseline cohort before train

SUBMITTER: Bao H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8850070 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature