AHA/ASA Stroke Council Chair and volunteer expert, Peter D. Panagos, M.D., offers perspective (via Zoom) on ISC 20 presentation 57. He is professor, Emergency Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO.
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"Most standard MRIs that are located in hospitals are standalone facilities that the patient has to go to from wherever they are in the hospital to that facility. Within the stroke world, many of these patients, if they're in the ICU, are quite ill. Some of them may be on ventilators. Some of them may be on multiple medications that are on poles and drips, that require a nurse, a respiratory therapist to leave their workspace and go to the imaging suite to get the study done. It's quite cumbersome and quite time intensive. What this technology offers is, though the magnets are smaller, which comes with some limitations as far as quality and definition, they are able to detect changes in brain injury, brain hemorrhage and to assess change over time, almost daily, to a point where, if you had to transport these patients every day to that MRI suite, it would be extremely time intensive and very work intensive for the staff. This really minimizes the transport of the patient, which is a discomfort, and the workload which is for the staff. It's overall much more effective technology and use of technology."