NCT04270513

Flying Intervention Team for Endovascular Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke in Rural Areas

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 477 (actual)
• Sponsor: Munich Municipal Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to compare time delay and safety parameters of stroke patients initially admitted to a rural primary stroke center (PSC) who receive endovascular treatment (EVT) by a Flying Intervention Team with patients who receive EVT after secondary transfer to a comprehensive stroke center (CSC).

Detailed description

A novel health care concept was implemented in the telemedical stroke network TEMPiS (Telemedical Project for integrative Stroke Care) to reduce time delays to EVT in stroke patients with large vessel occlusion: After telemedicine-assisted identification of EVT candidates in a PSC, a Flying Intervention Team (neuroradiologist and angiography assistant) is flown from a CSC via helicopter to the PSC to perform EVT in the local angiography suite. Flying Intervention Team service runs from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Patients remain at local stroke unit for further treatment. Analysis will include time delay to EVT, recanalization, symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage, periprocedural complications, in-hospital complications, and mortality.

Conditions

• Brain Infarction

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Endovascular treatment by Flying Intervention Team	After telemedicine-assisted decision for endovascular treatment, the Flying Intervention Team is transferred via helicopter to the primary stroke center and performs endovascular treatment in the local angiography suite.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-02-01
• Primary completion: 2019-10-24
• Completion: 2020-04-01
• First posted: 2020-02-17
• Last updated: 2020-02-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany