Emergency Stroke Calls: Obtaining Rapid Telephone Triage (ESCORTT) – a programme of research to facilitate recognition of stroke by emergency medical dispatchers

Emergency Stroke Calls: Obtaining Rapid Telephone Triage (ESCORTT) – a programme of research to facilitate recognition of stroke by emergency medical dispatchers

Background: Rapid access to emergency stroke care can reduce death and disability by enabling immediate provision of interventions such as thrombolysis, physiological monitoring and stabilisation. One of the ways that access to services can be facilitated is through emergency medical service (EMS) d...

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Main Authors: Caroline L Watkins, Stephanie P Jones, Michael J Leathley, Gary A Ford, Tom Quinn, Joanna J McAdam, Josephine ME Gibson, Kevin C Mackway-Jones, Stuart Durham, David Britt, Sara Morris, Mark O’Donnell, Hedley CA Emsley, Shuja Punekar, Anil Sharma, Chris J Sutton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: NIHR Journals Library 2014-02-01
Series:Programme Grants for Applied Research
Subjects:
stroke
emergency medical dispatcher
emergency medical services
dispatch diagnosis
education
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3310/pgfar02010

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https://doi.org/10.3310/pgfar02010

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