Official Title: Video Call Assisted Assessment of Acute Stroke in Addition to Stroke Scales in a Prehospital Setting A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial
Status: RECRUITING
Status Verified Date: 2024-08
Last Known Status: None
Delayed Posting: No
If Stopped, Why?: Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access: No
If Expanded Access, NCT#: N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status: N/A
Acronym: None
Brief Summary: This study aims to investigate whether a live stream video between the on-call neurologist and the emergency medical technicians can increase feasibility and performance of symptom-based prehospital stroke scales
Detailed Description: Treatment of stroke with either thrombolysis or thrombectomy is highly time-dependent administration within 45 hours and 24 hours from symptom onset respectively and morbidity and mortality increase with time from symptom onset to treatment Hence prehospital evaluation and transport must be as accurate and rapid as possible in order to minimise time to treatment
Different triage and transport paradigms for patients with suspected stroke are being investigated and multiple stroke scales have been coined in order to examine patients suspected of stroke in a prehospital setting However performance and feasibility vary greatly in different validation studies suggesting that those outcomes are greatly dependent on other factors ie acceptance amongst stakeholders implementation process patient segment etc Some recent studies have shown promising results using video solutions between emergency medical services EMS personnel and on-call neurologist in examining patients suspected of stroke in the prehospital phase The investigators will perform this trial to examine whether a video call assisted assessment of patients suspected of stroke in a prehospital setting can increase feasibility and performance of symptom-based prehospital stroke scales