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

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

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.

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.

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