"In the U.S., someone has a stroke every 40 seconds and someone dies from a stroke every 4 minutes.¹ Treatment with IV tPA and mechanical thrombectomy are time-dependent, making early stroke identification and notification of a specialist critical."
"The software automatically analyzes CT scans of ER patients using machine-learning algorithms similar to detect blockages in major brain blood vessels. When the software thinks it has found a blockage—suggesting the most common form of stroke—it sends an alert to a brain specialist’s smartphone asking them to review the images. The software also flags the specific images it judges to be most important."
According to the company: * Reduces notification time from 66 minutes to 6 minutes * In a study involving 300 patients, the algorithm achieved an AUC of 0.91 * Recognized LVO strokes with 90% specificity and sensitivity