In-ambulance consults can shorten the time between stroke symptom onset and treatment – News-Medical.Net

Eighteen minutes might be all it takes to ensure a full recovery for stroke patients in rural South Carolina.
By changing EMS workflows and incorporating telemedicine techniques, physicians at MUSC Health have partnered with Georgetown Memorial Hospital and Hampton Regional Medical Center to significantly shorten the time between a patient’s stroke symptom onset and their treatment, as recently reported in the Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases.
Through MUSC Health’s Telestroke Network,…

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