Table 1

Potential future diagnostic and therapeutic tools to be used in MSUs

DiagnosticTherapeutic

  • Laboratory biomarkers of brain damage

  • Doppler ultrasound

  • CT scanners including evaluation of proximal cervical vessels

  • Low field, small MRI

  • Imaging analysis tools

  • Sensor technologies (accelerometers, electroencephalography microwaves, near-infrared, radiofrequency, transcranial, volume impedance phase shift spectroscopy)

  • Better thrombolytics

  • Known and new neuroprotective agents

  • Sonothrombolysis, drug-containing microbubbles

  • Anticoagulant antagonists

  • Hypothermia

  • Surgical treatment of epidural haematoma

  • Haemostatic treatment of haemorrhage

  • MSUs, mobile stroke units.