MCHD Paramedic Podcast29 Mai 2018

Episode 9 - The State Of EMS Stroke Care In 2018

In the past 24 months, stroke care has evolved in the way we evaluate strokes in the pre-hospital space and how they are worked up and treated in the hospital. Large vessel Occlusion (LVO) stoke is a large caliber vessel clot causing stroke symptoms. New techniques and devices in endovascular retrieval of these clots along with intravenous Tpa has shown great success in five randomized trials published in 2015.(1) The number we need to treat for one improved neurologic outcome at 90 days according to data from these trials is 2.6 patients. This is a massive breakthrough in the way we approach acute stroke care. Improved outcomes in these trials are directly associated with times to reperfusion therapy and EMS must change the way we diagnose and rank stroke patients in order to get them an endovascular capable facility when appropriate. In the first podcast our team will review all of the pertinent data from these trials and suggest how EMS should approach this LVO stroke diagnosis. In the second part of our stroke awareness series we talk with Dr. Peter Antevy, an EMS medical director from Florida who is an expert of developing regional systems of care for these LVO stroke patients. He will discuss development of their system and exciting new data that demonstrates a treatment benefit up to 24 hours after onset of symptoms in some subsets of these stroke patients. (2, 3) References 1.Hermes Collaboration: Lancet 2016 http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)00163-X/abstract 2. Dawn Trial: NEJM 2018 http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1706442 3. DEFUSE 3 Trial: NEJM 2018 http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1713973

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