Prehospital-Stroke-Scale Parameterized Hospital Selection Protocol for Suspected Stroke Patients Considering Door-to-Treatment Durations.

ABSTRACT: Background To mitigate uncertainty that may arise in the judgment of emergency medical technicians when relying on a prehospital stroke scale at the scene, we propose a hospital selection protocol that considers the uncertainty of a prehospital stroke scale and the actual door-to-treatment durations, and we have developed a web-based system to be used with mobile devices. Methods and Results This hospital selection protocol incorporates real-time, estimated transport time obtained from Google Maps, historical median door-to-treatment duration at hospitals that only provide the standard intravenous thrombolysis treatment, and at hospitals with endovascular thrombectomy for probable large-vessel occlusion cases. We have validated the efficiency of the proposed protocol and compared it with o

SUBMITTER: Wang CH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9075444 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature