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

NCT ID: NCT04578002

Last Updated: 2024-03-05

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Total Enrollment: 94 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-11-14
• Study Completion Date: 2024-08-31

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

Stroke, Acute

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Interventions

prehospital telemedical triage

Prehospital Triage of Patients with Suspected Stroke Using Onsite Mobile Telemedicine approach (interactive video and audio streaming). In patients with suspected stroke, a prehospital patient evaluation by end-to-end encrypted real-time audio- and video streaming from the pre-hospital setting to an in-hospital stroke physician, located at the University hospital of Basel, is requested and initiated (telestroke-path). The process is supervised and evaluated by an in-hospital stroke physician in real-time. Patients considered having an acute stroke will be directly transferred to cerebral imaging via CT. All other patients will follow conventional stroke path.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

propatient Forschungsstiftung

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Philippe Lyrer, Prof. Dr. med.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Stroke Center, Neurology, University Hospital Basel

Locations

Stroke Center, Neurology, University Hospital Basel

Basel, , Switzerland

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

Switzerland

Central Contacts

Philippe Lyrer, Prof. Dr. med.

Role: CONTACT

philippe.lyrer@usb.ch

+41 61 265 4435

Sebastian Thilemann, Dr. med.

Role: CONTACT

sebastian.thilemann@usb.ch

Facility Contacts

Philippe Lyrer, Prof. Dr. med.

Role: primary

philippe.lyrer@usb.ch

+41 (0) 61 265 4435

Sebastian Thilemann, Dr. med.

Role: backup

sebastian.thilemann@usb.ch

+41 61 32 85307

Other Identifiers

2022-0126; me20Lyrer

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id