Mobile Stroke Unit for Pre-hospital Emergency Care

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

836 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-03-29

Study Completion Date

2024-03-31

Brief Summary

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Emergency department overcrowding is a major challenge in medicine, leading to a delay in diagnosis and treatment for the patient due to long waiting times. This is very relevant for diseases like acute stroke and other emergencies. The Advanced Mobile Stroke Unit is an ambulance equipped with additional devices to diagnose and treat patients at the emergency site. Patients with less severe conditions can be diagnosed and safely left at home. The objectives of this project are to investigate whether the Advanced Mobile Stroke Unit compared to a normal ambulance enables more accurate triage of patients (treatment at home vs hospital vs specialist vs A\&E). The Advanced Mobile Stroke Unit ambulance will be used in a random order of weeks and this will be compared to weeks with normal ambulances. The study will be carried out by the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust in collaboration with the East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust in the East of England. The project is a collaboration with Saarland University, Germany,

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Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Stroke, Acute Emergencies

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Advanced Mobile Stroke Unit

Prehospital treatment of patients with an advanced Mobile Stroke Unit. The advanced Mobile Stroke Unit is an ambulance equipped with a computed tomography scanner, and additional diagnostic devices, such as point-of-care-laboratory and telemedicine to enable the team to diagnose and initiated specialised treatment of emergency patients at the emergency site.

Group Type OTHER

Management

Intervention Type OTHER

Comparison if different strategies to manage acute emergencies in the pre-hospital setting.

Conventional ambulance

Prehospital emergency care with conventional ambulances.

Group Type OTHER

Management

Intervention Type OTHER

Comparison if different strategies to manage acute emergencies in the pre-hospital setting.

Interventions

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Management

Comparison if different strategies to manage acute emergencies in the pre-hospital setting.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* acute emergency patients 18 years or older, who are identified via the national emergency telephone number 999 or 111with suspected severe medical emergency condition, which is categorised as: breathing problem, seizure, falls with head trauma, headache, sick person with suspected infection, stroke, unconsciousness
* calls Monday to Friday 9am to 5 pm
* written informed consent