Tag: emergency services

Stroke transfer protocols: what does the road ahead look like?

A number of somewhat conflicting studies have been published over the past year regarding triage and transport protocols for stroke. In light of the...

AI tool outperforms human emergency call handlers in identifying stroke

A team of researchers from Denmark have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) framework to address the number of strokes that go unrecognised by...

Get Ahead of Stroke campaign debuts new online resources for EMS...

With Brain Awareness Week (13–19 March) approaching, the Get Ahead of Stroke campaign has announced it is debuting new online resources for emergency medical...

UK stroke patients among thousands left waiting more than one hour...

In March 2022, more than 390,000 people who called 999 with emergencies including suspected stroke waited for an average of over one hour for...