Training EMS providers to understand which patients are eligible for thrombectomy, and how to appropriately triage and transport them is particularly important in cases of ischemic stroke with ...

EMS consultation consists of medical history, physical examination and vital signs, and ECG measurements. All data are transferred to a newly developed platform for the triage cardiologist.

First responders stage a simulated triage outside Great American Ball Park during a mass casualty training exercise, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019, in Cincinnati. Since 1976, EMS providers have had a ...

To address this, the American Stroke Association (ASA) has developed a template severity-based EMS triage algorithm to direct EMS to either the nearest stroke-ready versus the nearest Comprehensive ...

Purpose: This project aimed to enhance EMS stroke recognition and improve triage to appropriate stroke centers, thereby reducing treatment times. The successful integration of EMS with an optimized ...

The first option is diagnosis in the ambulance via an emergency medical services (EMS) call (118 or 911 ... treatment can be started directly in the ambulance after diagnosis and triage.2,3 ...

The EMS medical record and thereby also the questionnaire was available ... based assessment tools not considering patient sex or age such as Rapid Emergency Triage and Treatment System17 18 or ...

Ultimately, the most effective way to ensure rapid access to thrombectomy is probably field triage for suspected ELVO based on an EMS assessment. Using data from the ESCAPE trial, mathematical models ...

BACKGROUND: The Manchester triage system (MTS) is now widely used in UK accident and emergency (A&E) departments. No clinical outcome studies have yet been published to validate the system. Safety of ...

Introduction: The Paediatric Triage Tape (PTT) is an easy to use major incident primary triage tool, based upon a modification of the Triage Sieve. The purpose of this study was to prospectively ...