Identification of Stroke at the Emergency Medical Dispatch Center

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT04784936

Acronym

IdStroke

Enrollment

179

Registered

2021-03-05

Start date

2010-09-30

Completion date

2013-10-30

Last updated

2021-03-05

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Conditions

Stroke

Brief summary

A study to investigate how stroke is identified and whether FAST, face-arm-speech test, is used in the emergency medical dispatch centre in Stockholm. The study will also investigate when FAST is used, does it increase the identification of stroke? And if other factors can be identified as markers for more effective identification of stroke during the emergency call.

Detailed description

Transcribed alarm calls are read through and analyzed using a qualitative method. Meaningful units are identified, coded and categorized. A phenomenological analysis is also applied to a separate analysis.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

CASE_ONLY

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Patients who has called the emergency medical dispatch centre and also are diagnosed as stroke at Södersjukhuset during the study period.

Exclusion criteria

* Cases where needed documents and files are missing.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Frequency of stroke symptoms	1 h	A data collection tool assessing the frequency of stroke symptoms will be developed. The data collection tool will identify stroke symptoms presented by the caller during emergency calls and assess stroke symptoms in the Face-Arm-Speech-Time Test (FAST). Stroke symptoms will then be quantified into percentages for a descriptive analysis.

Countries

Sweden

Outcome results