No summary of Professor Donnan's presentation posted as yet....

No summary of Professor Donnan's presentation posted as yet.

However, there was one other paper of relevance to EMV - Novel Approaches in Prehospital Imaging: From Ultrasound to Mobile CT presented by Professor Jeffrey Saver from UCLA.

Summary below. Looks to me that there is nothing in the wings for EMV investors to worry about. Think we are leading the pack.

ESO-WSO 2020 SESSION REPORT: NOVEL IMAGING IN STROKE
09/11/2020/in ESOC, Stroke Research /by Jennifer Thomsen

Session chair: Bruce Campbell, University of Melbourn, Australia

Report by Klearchos Psychogios MD, MSc, PhDc, Stroke Unit Metropolitan Hospital, Athens

Novel Approaches in Prehospital Imaging: From Ultrasound to Mobile CT

Pr. Jeffrey Saver from UCLA started the session by presenting novel approaches to prehospital imaging. Imaging in the field can aid critical decisions in order to transfer the right patient to the right hospital.

Patients with small vessel occlusions should be transferred to acute stroke ready hospitals or primary stroke centers, patients with large vessel occlusion should go to centers with an ability to perform mechanical thrombectomy and patients with intracranial hemorrhages will need neurosurgical facilities.

He described some types of stroke helmets which use biometrics or transcranial ultrasound to assess vessel patency and tissue perfusion, albeit not yet ready for clinical employment. He then focused on certain aspects of CT scans used by mobile stroke units, which can be further assisted by artificial intelligence reading. He closed with the cluster control RCT from 5 EMS regions of USA which will assess the benefits of stroke treatment delivered in stroke mobile units. The final results will be presented in the International Stroke Conference on February 2021.

https://eso-stroke.org/eso-wso-2020-session-report-novel-imaging-in-stroke/