Imaging of Prehospital Stroke Therapeutics

Overview

Journal Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther

Specialty Cardiology & Vascular Diseases

Date 2015 Aug 27

PMID 26308602

Citations 5

Authors

Michelle P Lin

Nerses Sanossian

David S Liebeskind

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Abstract

Despite significant quality improvement efforts to streamline in-hospital acute stroke care in the conventional model, there remain inherent layers of treatment delays, which could be eliminated with prehospital diagnostics and therapeutics administered in a mobile stroke unit. Early diagnosis using telestroke and neuroimaging while in the ambulance may enable targeted routing to hospitals with specialized care, which will likely improve patient outcomes. Key clinical trials in telestroke, mobile stroke units with prehospital neuroimaging capability, prehospital ultrasound and co-administration of various classes of neuroprotectives, antiplatelets and antithrombin agents with intravenous thrombolysis are discussed in this article.

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