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IMAGE: Berlin currently has three STEMOs, mobile stroke units which help reduce time to treatment. view more
Credit: Photo: S. Haase / Berliner Feuerwehr
STEMOs (Stroke-Einsatz-Mobile) have been serving Berlin for ten years. The specialized stroke emergency response vehicles allow physicians to start treating stroke patients before they reach hospital. For the first time, a team of researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin has been able to show that the dispatch of mobile stroke units is linked to improved clinical outcomes. The researchers findings, which show that patients for whom STEMOs were dispatched were more likely to survive without long-term disability, have been published in