SynthesisFrontiers in neurology2022
A Systematic Review of Mobile Stroke Unit Among Acute Stroke Patients: Time Metrics, Adverse Events, Functional Result and Cost-Effectiveness.
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- Treatment first, transport second: rethinking stroke management with mobile stroke units-A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled trials.Frontiers in neurology · 2026Pooled it
- Comparing 5G mobile stroke unit and emergency medical service in patients acute ischemic stroke eligible for t-PA treatment: A prospective, single-center clinical trial in Ya'an, China.Brain and behavior · 2023Trial
- Towards robot-assisted magnetic particle imaging for mobile point-of-care (neuro)vascular applications.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Marine Mobile Stroke Unit: A Pilot Study on the Feasibility and Quality of Brain Imaging.Cerebrovascular diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Prehospital intensive blood pressure management in intracerebral hemorrhage: current evidence, controversies, and future directions.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Review
- Prehospital thrombolytic treatment of acute ischemic stroke using a remotely controlled CT scanner.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Modelling the potential clinical benefit of mobile stroke units in England.BMC emergency medicine · 2025Article
- Usability testing a web application to support evidence-based commissioning decisions for implementing mobile stroke units.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
- Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of Telemedicine Physician Assessments on a Mobile Stroke Unit: Protocol for a Prospective Open-Label Blinded End-Point Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2024Article
- Pre-Hospital Stroke Care beyond the MSU.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2024Review
- Physiological Variability during Prehospital Stroke Care: Which Monitoring and Interventions Are Used?Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Global stroke statistics 2023: Availability of reperfusion services around the world.International journal of stroke : official journal of the International Stroke Society · 2024Review
- Establishing an MSU service in a medium-sized German urban area-clinical and economic considerations.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
- Pre-hospital telestroke and expanded hyper-acute telestroke network solutions to reduce geographic inequities: a brief review from the South Pacific.Frontiers in stroke · 2024Review
- Medical Management of Acute Cerebral Ischemia.Delaware journal of public health · 2023Article
- ELECTRA-STROKE: Electroencephalography controlled triage in the ambulance for acute ischemic stroke-Study protocol for a diagnostic trial.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Geospatial optimization of Air-Mobile Stroke Unit deployment in Norway: expanding the frontiers of neurocritical care.Frontiers in neurologyArticle
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Background: Mobile stroke unit (MSU) is deployed to shorten the duration of ischemic stroke recognition to thrombolysis treatment, thus reducing disability, mortality after an acute stroke attack, and related economic burden. Therefore, we conducted a comprehensive systematic review of the clinical trial and economic literature focusing on various outcomes of MSU compared with conventional emergency medical services (EMS). Methods: An electronic search was conducted in four databases (PubMed, OVID Medline, Embase, and the Cochrane Controlled Register of Trials) from 1990 to 2021. In these trials, patients with acute stroke were assigned to receive either MSU or EMS, with clinical and economic outcomes. First, we extracted interested data in the pooled population and conducted a subgroup analysis to examine related heterogeneity. We then implemented a descriptive analysis of economic outcomes. All analyses were performed with R 4.0.1 software. Results: A total of 22,766 patients from 16 publications were included. In total 7,682 ( Conclusion: A comprehensive analysis of current research suggests that MUS, compared with conventional EMS, has a better performance in terms of time metrics, safety, long-term medical benefits, and cost-effectiveness.
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