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AI Helping to Advance Stroke Care
Sutter Health (https://vitals.sutterhealth.org) is working with neurovascular technology developer RapidAI (https://www.rapididai.com) to enable emergency medicine and stroke specialists to have the tools and clinical data needed to help doctors quickly diagnose a stroke and plan the treatment.
As Dr. Manoj Mittal, Medical Director of Stroke & Neurocritical Care for Sutter Health's Valley Areas explained, "Patients who experience a severe acute ischemic stroke may be transferred to one of our specialty hospitals for emergency care with thrombectomy to restore blood and oxygen flow to the brain. By using the RapidAI software, we can see images of the clot as patients are transferred to the hospital."
The RapidAI platform available on a smartphone or other mobile devices helps stroke specialists quickly identify large blood vessel clots by automatically processing CT scans and delivering easy to interpret CT images.
Results are delivered through the RapidAI mobile app and by email to stroke team members at the hospital and ED in three minutes or less which helps doctors more quickly and accurately diagnose stroke and plan urgent treatment.
Internationally, doctors at the National University Hospital (NUH) in Singapore, are using the AI triage tool to expedite the process of identifying appropriate stroke for endovascular treatment.
Today doctors in hospitals not only in America, Europe, and Singapore, are using the AI platform, but it is also in use in hospitals in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, and India.