When someone suffers a stroke, time and choice of treatment are critical factors. The outcome largely depends on how quickly the person receives the right care. If the ambulance staff can consult a stroke specialist via video streaming inside the ambulance, before departure, lives can be saved and permanent brain damage prevented.
This is shown in a study led by Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden, which involved all of the key professional groups required when someone suffers an acute stroke. The study "Video support for prehospital stroke consultation: implications for system design and clinical implementation from prehospital simulations" is published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making . "Using video streaming and consultation in the ambulance, stroke patients can quickly and remotely be assessed by a neurologist and driven directly to the hospital that can provide them with the best care.
The biggest difference can be felt by the people who live furthest away from a specialist hospital. So, in addition to better care outcomes, this means more equal care for each stroke patient," says Stefan Candefjord, who is a researcher in digital health at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Chalmers and first author of the study within the project VIPHS (Video Support in the PreHospital Stroke Chain). The right decision can save one and a half hours A stroke is mostly caused by a clot in the blood vessels of the brain.
In the case of clots in smaller blood.