Mobile Stroke Treatment Unit

How effective are mobile stroke units at decreasing time to tPA administration and improving functional neurologic outcomes?

This app helps EMS providers triage symptoms more accurately and quickly – and get the patient to the right facility without delay

The UCSF physician team discusses how to best treat our stoke patients in the pre-hospital setting

Bryan Bledsoe: “EMS must be fixed with bulldozers not tweezers”

From the NIH to the Cincinnati stroke scale, RACE or the Los Angeles Motor Score, stroke scales are a work in progress

Century Ambulance reduces brain tissue loss by connecting neurologists to perform NIHSS assessment in the field

Jefferson Health and Bensalem Rescue Squad's MSU was acquired and put into service in five months; learn how the unit's success was a direct result of collaborative efforts

The study spanned from 2014 to 2018 and looked at data from 161 patients, who underwent intra-arterial thrombectomy after suffering a stroke

The MSU features telemedicine capabilities, a CT scanner and will be staffed with certified personnel to treat patients in the field known as the "Brain Rescue Team"

Most state rules direct EMS providers to the closest hospital with a stroke unit, regardless of the attack’s severity, and some states limit providers from choosing out-of-state hospitals

Excellance, Inc. finishes new Mobile Stroke Treatment Unit for Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

Cleveland Clinic reports how studies from their Mobile Stroke Treatment Unit (MSTU) are dramatically cutting treatment time. Excellance, Inc. manufactured the MSTU and there are currently only 11 units in the world like this one that are active.

Rush University Medical Center discusses their new Mobile Stroke Treatment Unit manufactured by Excellance, Inc.

Excellance, Inc. has a new video series to help agencies better understand their new units. This video focuses on the redundant air conditioning on the Mobile Stroke Treatment Unit manufactured by Excellance.

Frazer, builder of the nation’s first mobile stroke unit, adds new levels of protection for medics and patients in crash conditions