Stroke Triage Optimization by Ambulance Paramedics in the Pre-hospital Setting
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorLeiden University Medical Center
About this trial
There are everal scales designed to help ambulance paramedics to identify a patient with a stroke and activate a stroke code. These scales were never tested in the field in a large unselected patient sample. We aim to perform an in-the field head tot head comparison of all published stroke scales designed to be used by ambulance paramedics
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
patients for whom a stroke code is activated
Disqualifiers
None
Trial population
All patients for whom a stroke code was activated.
Trial design
Design model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Treatments tested in this trial
stroke-APP
Other interventionAmbulane paramedics will use an online application to fill in several observations on scen
Treatment groups
No treatment groups listed
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
final diagnosis
Diangosis by treating physician
Time frame
discharge or after 3 months2
treated with reperfusion therapy
treatment with IV thrombolysis; endovascular therapy or surgery
Time frame
first 24 hours after admission3
additional investigations
CT scans performed
Time frame
on admissionSponsors and contacts
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Leiden University Medical Center
Lead sponsor
Alrijne Ziekenhuis Leiderdorp
Collaborator
Groene Hart Ziekenhuis
Collaborator
Medical Center Haaglanden
Collaborator
HagaZiekenhuis
Collaborator
Reinier de Graaf Groep
Collaborator
Regionale Ambulance Voorziening Hollands Midden
Collaborator
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