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News and research on how Mobile Stroke Units are improving outcomes for stroke patients.

Neurology Today®December 19, 2024  •  By Susan Fitzgerald

Mobile Stroke Units Yield Better Outcomes Than Care Through EMS Ambulances

The number of mobile stroke units in the US has grown to more than 20 over the last decade and can help with patient outcomes by having a portable CT scanner and personnel on board trained to initiate intravenous thrombectomy on the way to the hospital. Now, research shows that patients treated by those units had a lower level of global disability at hospital discharge than those treated by standard emergency medical services.

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