In acute stroke management, time is brain. Bringing swift treatment to the patient, instead of
the conventional approach of awaiting the patient's arrival at the hospital for treatment, is a …

Since its first introduction in clinical practice in 2008, the concept of mobile stroke unit
enabling prehospital stroke treatment has rapidly expanded worldwide. This review …

Background and purpose Stroke recognition at the Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
impacts the stroke treatment and thus the related health outcome. At the EMS Copenhagen …

Posterior circulation stroke (PCS), caused by infarction within the vertebrobasilar arterial
system, is a potentially life-threatening condition and accounts for about 20–25% of all …

Background The effectiveness of thrombolysis is highly time dependent. For this reason,
short target times have been set to reduce time to treatment from hospital arrival, which is …

Background: Recently, a strategy for treating stroke directly at the emergency site was
developed. It was based on the use of an ambulance equipped with a scanner, a point-of …

Background Despite recent advances in acute stroke care, reperfusion therapies are given
to only 1%-8% of patients. Previous studies have focused on prehospital or decision delay …

Prehospital point-of-care ultrasound used by nonradiologists in emergency medicine is
gaining ground. It is feasible on-scene and during aeromedical transport and allows health …

Background: Despite recent advances in acute stroke care, only 1–8% of patients can
receive reperfusion therapies, mainly because of prehospital delay (PHD). Objective: This …

Background In recent years, important progress has been made in effective stroke treatment,
however, patients living in rural and remote areas have nil or very limited access to timely …