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Association Between Dispatch of Mobile Stroke Units and Functional Outcomes Among Stroke Patients in Berlin
This cohort study compares global disability at 3 months among Berlin patients with out-of-hospital ischemic stroke brought to care via a mobile stroke unit ambulance (with prehospital CT scanning with or without angiography, point-of-care laboratory testing, prehospital thrombolysis) vs conventional ambulance alone.
Source: JAMA - February 2, 2021 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research

Changing the Narrative
“During the first week of my third year of medical school, I diagnosed an acute stroke. Ms Lau had been admitted to the hospital with right hemiparesis from an acute pontine infarct. I was the first member of the neurology team to see Ms Lau on her third morning in the hospital, or at least the first to notice that she had also developed new left-sided weakness. I ran down the hall to find my resident. As he worked to confirm my findings, his pager went off. New to his role as well, he looked uncomfortable for a moment before announcing, ‘It’s time for rounds. I can’t handle this right now. She needs a stat CT scan...
Source: JAMA - July 19, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research