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Lauren Dubinsky, Senior Reporter | March 23, 2016
Shelby County, Tennessee has a stroke rate per 100,000 population, which is 37 percent higher than the national average.
The unit will be based in a 10-mile radius in Memphis with the highest incidence of stroke, but it can also be deployed within the entire metropolitan area. Alexandrov estimates that 300 patients will have to be treated by the unit to prove its effectiveness over the next three years.
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For other institutions that are considering deploying a mobile stroke unit, Alexandrov said that geography is a very important consideration. Memphis is easy to drive around, but in New York, with busy streets, and West Virginia with the mountains, it's a much different scenario.
The end user providing the service also needs to be taken into consideration because the scenarios are different for a single hospital system or a physician practice and academic practice that delivers patients to competing institutions.
"We decided to be able to pick up any patient anywhere and bring them to the destination of their choice, and to go to competing institutions," said Alexandrov. "We are not constrained by distances to just one institution."
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