Prehospital Notification Using a Mobile Application Can Improve Regional Stroke Care System in a Metropolitan Area
| Autor: | Sang-Hun Lee, Sang-Chan Jin, Hyun Wook Ryoo, Jung Ho Kim, Sung Il Sohn, Youngrok Do, Jae Yun Ahn, Yang-Ha Hwang, Yoon-Soo Lee |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Emergency Medical Services Stroke care Time-to-Treatment Fibrinolytic Agents Odds Ratio Emergency medical services Humans Medicine Thrombolytic Therapy Registries Stroke Aged Ischemic Stroke Retrospective Studies Thrombectomy Aged 80 and over business.industry General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Mobile Applications Emergency & Critical Care Medicine Metropolitan area Acute Disease Female Original Article Medical emergency business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Korean Medical Science |
| ISSN: | 1598-6357 1011-8934 |
| DOI: | 10.3346/jkms.2021.36.e327 |
| Popis: | Background Acute ischemic stroke is a time-sensitive disease. Emergency medical service (EMS) prehospital notification of potential patients with stroke could play an important role in improving the in-hospital medical response and timely treatment of patients with acute ischemic stroke. We analyzed the effects of FASTroke, a mobile app that EMS can use to notify hospitals of patients with suspected acute ischemic stroke at the prehospital stage. Methods We conducted a retrospective observational study of patients diagnosed with acute ischemic stroke at 5 major hospitals in metropolitan Daegu City, Korea, from February 2020 to January 2021. The clinical conditions and time required for managing patients were compared according to whether the EMS employed FASTroke app and further compared the factors by dividing the patients into subgroups according to the preregistration received by the hospitals when using FASTroke app. Results Of the 563 patients diagnosed with acute ischemic stroke, FASTroke was activated for 200; of these, 93 were preregistered. The FASTroke prenotification showed faster door-to-computed-tomography times (19 minutes vs. 25 minutes, P < 0.001), faster door-to-intravenous-thrombolysis times (37 minutes vs. 48 minutes, P < 0.001), and faster door-to-endovascular-thrombectomy times (82 minutes vs. 119 minutes, P < 0.001). The time was further shortened when the preregistration was conducted simultaneously by the receiving hospital. Conclusion The FASTroke app is an easy and useful tool for prenotification as a regional stroke care system in the metropolitan area, leading to reduced transport and acute ischemic stroke management time and more reperfusion treatment. The effect was more significant when the preregistration was performed jointly. Graphical Abstract |
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