Triage of Stroke Patients in the Ambulance with EEG

Sponsored by:

ANT Neuro
Date:
November 24, 2020
Time (PT):
3:00 PM
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  • biomedical engineers
  • neurophysiologists & neurologists
  • emergency medicine specialists
  • clinical neuroscientist
  • professionals interested in clinical machine learning

Webinar Summary

  • how to best utilize EEG to improve prognosis of stroke patients
  • how to decide already in an ambulance if the patient is a candidate for EVT
  • the added value of EEG for a stroke patient in an emergency setting

Millions of people suffer a stroke each year. Endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) dramatically improves prognosis after stroke, but only if done rapidly. Since EVT is performed in specialized hospitals only, there is an unmet clinical need to identify stroke patients eligible for EVT in the ambulance. Bringing such patients straight to an EVT hospital improves prognosis. Unfortunately, no triage instrument for the hyperacute phase of stroke is available. With the EEG setup presented in this webinar, paramedics could triage stroke patients and reduce the time to therapy.

Presenters

Wouter V. Potters

Amsterdam UMC
Technical Physician

Dr. Wouter Potters is the Technical Physician in the department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology at Amsterdam UMC. He obtained his PhD in the field of MRI research and has extensive clinical experience in nerve and muscle ultrasound, intra-operative neuromonitoring during deep brain stimulation, and EEG. Besides his clinical duties, Dr. Potters is responsible for the technical and IT infrastructure of the clinical neurophysiological department within Amsterdam UMC. Dr. Potters is a co-initiator of covidpredict.nl. In 2018, Dr. Potters and Dr. Coutinho won the Amsterdam Science and Innovation award for their idea of stroke triage using EEG.

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Sponsor

ANT Neuro

ANT Neuro is a provider of neuroscience research and neurodiagnostics products, specifically EEG, EMG, MRI, TMS and MEG devices.

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