Release date: 2017-11-02

A unique high-tech ambulance can provide timely and important treatments on site. Image source: UCLA

About every 40 seconds, a stroke will occur in Americans. Almost every four minutes, someone will die. In this case, the UCLA Medical Center has officially launched the first mobile stroke ward on the West Coast to provide rapid brain rescue for stroke patients. In the past, these patients may face helpless delays in treatment.

As part of the first phase of the pilot project, professional ambulances and trained personnel began responding to Santa Monica’s 911 calls in September to coordinate with the Santa Monica Fire Department. “Rapid response is critical because the sooner a stroke is treated, the better the patient's outcome,” said Dr. May Nour, medical director of the Arline and Henry Gluck Stroke Relief Program at UCLA. "We learned from a study at the University of California, Los Angeles that in a typical stroke, there are 2 million brain cell deaths per minute of treatment delay." This is a shocking number.

To this end, UCLA Medical Center has launched a mobile stroke ward, a unique ambulance equipped with a mobile CT scanner that allows doctors to diagnose and treat strokes and take appropriate medications. There is a mobile blood testing laboratory in the ward, as well as a neurologist, intensive care nurse, CT technologist and caregiver.

Dr. Jeffrey Saver, director of the Center for Integrated Stroke at UCLA, said: "At the UCLA Medical Center's Mobile Stroke Ward, we sent the hospital to the patient instead of sending the patient to the hospital to save the brain as much as possible."

Dr. May Nour is looking at brain imaging. Image source: UCLA

Dr. May Nour is optimistic about this high-tech ambulance. She said: "In the first few minutes after a stroke, being able to take care of a stroke patient can save the brain the most. This is our ultimate goal. The recovery and quality of life of the survivors of stroke are crucial. For the treatment, we provide patients with the greatest possible increase in clinical rehabilitation."

The study initiated a pilot program in which the neurologists of professional stroke treatment will be in the ward. However, as the program evolves, neuroscientists will monitor the treatment more effectively through video and voice connections from the UCLA Medical Center at Ronald Reagan.

Traditionally, critically ill patients need to be sent to hospital for treatment because there are more specialized medical equipment, but in the future, more advanced technology will make first aid more powerful, and the movements on the ambulance The ward can have the same advanced treatments, and researchers and scientists are working to make those cumbersome large-scale medical equipment more flexible and miniaturized to save more lives.

Reference material

[1] UCLA Health launches pioneering mobilestroke unit with support from LA County

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