NCT04578002

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

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

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 94 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-11-14
• Primary completion: 2024-07-01
• Completion: 2024-08-01
• First posted: 2020-10-08
• Last updated: 2024-03-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland