Identification of Stroke at the Emergency Medical Dispatch Center

NCT ID: NCT04784936

Last Updated: 2021-03-05

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 179 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2010-09-30
• Study Completion Date: 2013-10-30

Brief Summary

A study to investigate how stroke is identified and whether FAST, face-arm-speech test, is used in the emergency medical dispatch centre in Stockholm. The study will also investigate when FAST is used, does it increase the identification of stroke? And if other factors can be identified as "markers" for more effective identification of stroke during the emergency call.

Detailed Description

Transcribed alarm calls are read through and analyzed using a qualitative method. Meaningful units are identified, coded and categorized. A phenomenological analysis is also applied to a separate analysis.

Conditions

Stroke

Study Design

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

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients who has called the emergency medical dispatch centre and also are diagnosed as stroke at Södersjukhuset during the study period.

Exclusion Criteria

• Cases where needed documents and files are missing.

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Karolinska Institutet

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Katarina Bohm

PhD

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Katarina Bohm, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Karolinska Institutet, Intitution of clinical science and education, Södersjukhuset

Locations

Karolinska Institutet, Intitution of clinical science and education, Södersjukhuset

Stockholm, , Sweden

Countries

Sweden

Other Identifiers

Stroke2010/703-31/2

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id