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  • Kostopoulos, P; Walter, S; Haass, A; Papanagiotou, P; Roth, C; Yilmaz, U; Körner, H; Alexandrou, M; Viera, J; Dabew, E; Ziegler, K; Schmidt, K; Kubulus, D; Grunwald, I; Schlechtriemen, T; Liu, Y; Volk, T; Reith, W; Fassbender, K

    Neurology, 06/2012, Volume: 78, Issue: 23
    Journal Article

    In this feasibility study, we tested whether prehospital diagnostic stroke workup enables rational decision-making regarding treatment and the target hospital in persons with suspected stroke. A mobile stroke unit that delivers imaging (including multimodal brain imaging with CT angiography and CT perfusion), point-of-care-laboratory analysis, and neurologic expertise directly at the emergency site was analyzed for its use in prehospital diagnosis-based triage of suspected stroke patients. We present 4 complementary cases with suspected stroke who underwent prehospital diagnostic workup that enabled direct diagnosis-based treatment decisions and reliable triage regarding the most appropriate medical facility for that individual, e.g., a primary hospital vs specialized centers of a tertiary hospital. This preliminary report demonstrates the feasibility of prehospital diagnostic stroke workup for immediate etiology-specific decision-making regarding the necessary time-sensitive stroke treatment and the most appropriate target hospital.