Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography in Pre-hospital Management of Stroke: Can it make a Difference?

Antonio Siniscalchi; Giovanni Malferrari; Piergiorgio Lochner; Sandro Sanguigni

doi:10.2174/1573405617666210218094002

Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography in Pre-hospital Management of Stroke: Can it make a Difference?

Antonio Siniscalchi, Giovanni Malferrari, Piergiorgio Lochner, Sandro Sanguigni

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to discuss the use of transcranial doppler in the pre-hospital management of stroke. In the pre-hospital organization, neurological defect scales are used, but they are often indicative of the occlusions of anterior circulation and not of the posterior circulation. Patients with posterior circulation stroke are sometimes not diagnosed and clinically treated. In the pre-hospital phase, the transcranial doppler may identify an occlusion of the large cerebral vessels and be useful for stroke patients, in particular those with posterior occlusions, for a more precise diagnosis and consequently for adequate treatment in the excellence centers for stroke.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	850-853
Number of pages	4
Journal	Current Medical Imaging
Volume	17
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2174/1573405617666210218094002
Publication status	Published - 2021

Keywords

Acute ischemic stroke
anterior circulation
large cerebral vessels
posterior circulation
transcranial duplex with color code.
transcranial doppler

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Internal Medicine
Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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