Скачать или смотреть Stroke-smart paramedics are on the road in NSW

The Australian Stroke Alliance has trained more than 1000 Australian paramedics to be stroke-smart. Now, when first on-scene, they are armed with a suite of tools to speed up care. For the first time, they are connected to tele-neurologists via an Australian-designed telestroke app. Together, the paramedics and stroke physicians share vital patient data and decide which hospital they should travel to - and it's often not the closest. The aim is to deliver the patient to a specialist stroke centre as quickly as possible, thereby eliminating time-wasting transfers. Lives are being saved and time-to-treatment records are being smashed. Here, Professor Christopher Levi describes how we are transforming urgent, prehospital stroke care.