An ambulance crew that includes a neurologist and a portable CT scanner can limit the damage wrought by a stroke while en route to the hospital, researchers reported February 13.
The specially equipped team can distinguish those stroke patients who would benefit from a clot-dissolving injection of tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA – the first-choice drug for strokes caused by blood clots in the brain.
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