SEATTLE — Mobile stroke units were linked with improved outcomes compared with conventional emergency medical services for people with acute ischemic stroke, a presenter said at the 2022 American Academy of Neurology annual meeting.
“A mobile stroke unit is an ambulance that has a CT scanner on the rig with a critical care nurse and point-of-care labs and sometimes vascular neurologist either by telemedicine or in person,” Bay Leslie-Mazwi, MD, the Warren and Jermaine Magnuson Endowed Chair in Medicine for Neurosciences at the University of Washington, said at the meeting. “The