How is stroke retrieval changing?
Flight nurses’ ability to improve stroke outcomes for rural and remote patients will soon improve, thanks to the Australian Stroke Alliance’s transformational prehospital retrieval program.
The Stroke Alliance aims to shrink a typically 3‑tonne hospital-based CT scanner into a smaller device so an airborne emergency department can travel to the patient. The team is overseeing the design, build and integration of world-first, lightweight and portable brain scanners that will be placed into air ambulances, allowing faster diagnosis of stroke in any setting.