Emergency medical systems education may improve knowledge of pre-hospital stroke triage protocols.

Eleanor L DiBiasioMahesh V JayaramanLori OliverGino PaolucciMichael ClarkCristina WatkinsKaren DeLisiAnn WilksShadi YaghiMorgan HemendingerGrayson L BairdJ Adam OostemaRyan A McTaggart

Published in: Journal of neurointerventional surgery (2018)

A brief educational intervention results in substantial improvements in EMS knowledge of prehospital stroke severity scales and severity-based field triage protocols. Further study is needed to establish whether these gains in knowledge result in improved real-world performance.

Keyphrases

emergency medical
healthcare
emergency department
atrial fibrillation
randomized controlled trial
quality improvement
cerebral ischemia