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A CT brain scanner in an aircraft or ambulance?
22 September, 202131 January, 2025

On this page: Saving lives after stroke with a small aircraft or ambulance-mounted CT brain scanner Adelaide company Micro-X (MX1) has started developing a small CT brain scanner that can be fitted in ambulances and emergency aircraft. If successful, the device will allow paramedics and retrieval teams to diagnose and then start treating stroke patients…

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Mini-strokes provide health warning
20 November, 201117 April, 2012

Patients who suffer stroke-like attacks can have mortality rates 20 per cent higher than the general population, new research finds, leading to calls for better stroke prevention strategies for those who experience a transient ischemic attack (TIA). In one of the largest studies of its kind ever conducted, more than 20,000 adults hospitalised in New…

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