Title :
Pre-hospital care for stroke and trauma
Author :
Persson, Mikael ; Fhager, Jasila Prabahar Andreas ; Yinan Yu ; McKelvey, Tomas ; Karlsson, Jan-Erik ; Elam, Mikael
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Signals & Syst., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg, Sweden
Abstract :
Pre-hospital care for stroke and trauma remains one of the global challenges., Each year around 15 million people each year suffer a stroke. Only a small fraction of stroke patients who could benefit from thrombolytic treatment reach diagnosis and treatment in time. To increase this low figure we have developed microwave technology aiming to differentiate hemorrhagic from ischemic stroke patients in a pre-hospital setting.
Keywords :
diseases; patient care; patient diagnosis; patient treatment; hemorrhagic stroke patients; ischemic stroke patients; microwave technology; prehospital care; prehospital setting; thrombolytic treatment; trauma; Antenna measurements; Educational institutions; Hemorrhaging; Microwave antennas; Microwave technology; Receiving antennas; Stroke diagnostics;
Conference_Titel :
RF and Wireless Technologies for Biomedical and Healthcare Applications (IMWS-Bio), 2014 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-5445-2
DOI :
10.1109/IMWS-BIO.2014.7032429
