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Mobile stroke units increase odds of averting stroke
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Small CT brain scanner fitted in ambulances or emergency aircraft could save lives of stroke patients
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Within five years the advent of CT scanning began to suggest that he might be right. With scanning you could penetrate the vaulted brain and clearly identify the infarct the tissue killed by loss of blood flow. By the late ‘70s, advances in imaging technology had revealed that not all brain tissue impacted by a stroke died immediately. The area around the infarct the penumbra could survive for several hours.
The implications were huge. For the first time it became clear that there was a window of time in which the devastating effects of a stroke could perhaps be averted. The next step was to figure out exactly what that effective intervention might be.
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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