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Face screening tool detects stroke in seconds
A new smartphone face-screening tool could help paramedics to identify stroke in seconds – much sooner and more accurately than is currently possible.
“One of the key parameters that affects people with stroke is that their facial muscles typically become unilateral, so one side of the face behaves differently from the other side of the face,” de Oliveira said. Video recordings of facial expression examinations of 14 people with post-stroke and 11 healthy controls were used in this study. The team plan to develop the smartphone tool into an App in collaboration with healthcare providers so that it will be able to detect other neurological conditions that affect facial expressions.
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