Identification of Stroke at the Emergency Medical Dispatch Center

Stroke Clinical Trial

— IdStroke  

Official title:

Identification of Stroke at the Emergency Medical Dispatch Center

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04784936
• Other study ID #: Stroke2010/703-31/2
• Status: Completed
• Start date: September 2010
• Est. completion date: October 30, 2013

Study information

• Verified date: March 2021
• Source: Karolinska Institutet
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial 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.

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 179
• Est. completion date: October 30, 2013
• Est. primary completion date: September 2013
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

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.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Emergencies
• Stroke

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Sweden	Karolinska Institutet, Intitution of clinical science and education, Södersjukhuset	Stockholm

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Karolinska Institutet

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Sweden, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Frequency of stroke symptoms	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.	1 h