Long waits for an ambulance have put stroke patients’ recovery at risk as a growing number are making their own way to hospital, a report warns. The Stroke Association says paramedics know which ...

A special brain-wave cap can diagnose stroke in the ambulance, allowing the patient to receive appropriate treatment faster. Jonathan Coutinho, neurologist at Amsterdam UMC, is one of the inventors ...

With video cameras in the ambulances, medical scientists can make today’s stroke care even better for more patients. The same neurological assessment that the doctor does in a hospital can now be done ...

Treatment of acute stroke, before a distinction can be made between ischemic and hemorrhagic types, is challenging. Whether very early blood-pressure control in the ambulance improves outcomes among ...

Kathy Baraban was babysitting three of her grandkids, the youngest of them only 2 years old, when she fell to the floor. “I had lost the grip of the plates in my hand, went to pick them up, put them ...

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DUPAGE COUNTY, Ill. (WLS) -- The Mobile Stroke Unit, a state-of-the-art ambulance, in DuPage County is dispatched across the western suburbs to care for patients at their homes or workplaces, saving ...