The Challenge:

1. Someone in the United States has a stroke every 40 seconds. Every 4 minutes, someone dies of stroke.
2. Patients who arrive at the emergency room within 3 hours of their first symptoms often have less disability 3 months after a stroke than those who received delayed care.
3. Tools that help medical team to quickly identify stroke can help save $40,000,000 per 100,000 population.
4. Stroke is a leading cause of serious long-term disability.
5. Nearly 1 of 4 stroke survivors have had a previous stroke.

The Need:

1. There is currently no detector for stroke readily available in the market in mobile app/wearable format for at-risk individuals.
2. There is also no stroke rehabilitation tool readily available in the market in mobile app/wearable format to promote healthy recovery for survivors and their caregivers.

A Comprehensive Solution:

The IcTus Team has developed a multi-tiered approach to stroke diagnosis, rehabilitation, and prevention of recurrence.

1. innovative mobile application for ER and Neurology Staff to use in hospital or at pre-hospitalization home assessment to better manage and quickly determine the clinical management for at risk patients:

History:

• Fever
• Fatigue
• Sweating
• Artralgias/myalgias
• Weight loss
• IVDU
• Recent invasive procedures

Clinical exam:

• Cardiac murmur
• Skin involvement (purpuric rash, Janeway’s lesions, Osler nodes)
• Fever w/wo chills

Lab:

• Inflammatory marker elevation
• Renal involvement
• Blood culture positivity

Neuroimaging:

• multifocal ischemic lesions in multiple vascular territories; subarachnoid bleeding; bleeding in unusual sites

Echocardiography: vegetations, valve thickening, valve regurgitation