Study of the Potential Use of a Rapid Point-of-Care Device for the Direct Transfer of Stroke Patients From the Ambulance to the Thrombectomy Center

Stroke is the leading cause of long-term disability and the second most common cause of death worldwide, accounting for around 6.7 million deaths each year. The burden of stroke due to illness, disability and early death is set to double within the next 15 years due to an ageing population. Currently, imaging techniques are required to differentiate ischemic strokes with large vessel occlusion (LVO) from others. Since those neuroimages cannot be easily done at a pre-hospital level, our objective is to develop a simple point-of-care test (POC) to differentiate between both ischemic strokes during the acute phase, which will allow in the future an earlier thrombectomy treatment and an improvement of the patient outcomes significantly. For that, the investigators will recruit a 800 patients' cohort with pre-hospital and in-hospital blood samples by a multiplex POC for the biomarker measurement using an APP in combination with clinical data to identify LVO ischemic strokes. Finally, an interim analysis is planned when 400 patients are recruited.