Telestroke 2: Prehospital Triage of Patients With Suspected Stroke Using Onsite Mobile Telemedicine

University Hospital Basel

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Stroke, Acute

Treatments: Other: prehospital telemedical triage

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04578002

2022-0126 me20Lyrer;

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 94 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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