TY - GEN A1 - Baldaranov, Dobri A1 - Kilic, Mustafa A1 - Pflug, Kenny A1 - Theiss, Stephan A1 - Leis, Alexander A1 - Pemmerl, Josef A1 - Pels, Hendrik A1 - Boy, Sandra A1 - Bogdahn, Ulrich A1 - Schlachetzki, Felix T1 - Prehospital stroke education in paramedics T2 - European Journal of Neurology N2 - Background and aims: Rapid pre-hospital identification of stroke symptoms result in therapy directed admission to dedicated stroke units. Widespread application of stroke scales reveal high sensitivity but low specificity, especially in non-academic first aid personal. In our previous work we show that prehospital stroke diagnostics based on neurolo-gical examination and transcranial color-coded Duplex so-nography (TCCS) is feasible and results in high sensitivity and specificity for middle cerebral artery / distal internal carotid artery occlusion. The aim of our ongoing study is to design and evaluate a dedicated stroke educational program for paramedics including transcranial ultrasound. This is a prerequisite for a telemedical decision support system in the absence of stroke experienced emergency doctors. Methods: We currently educate 6 paramedics in advanced stroke neurology and also transcranial ultrasound examina-tion during a course of 2 months. The web-based curricu-lum was designed in two parts. The first was theoretical and the second will be the real-life training under neurological supervision. For final assessment of the theoretical know-ledge a control group will be implemented without specific stroke expertise. The stroke-educated paramedics will have to assist stroke investigation, perform pre-hospital TCCS and enter the date in a mobile telestroke pad. The data set will be send to an in-hospital stroke physician. We will as-sess the mean time to reach the diagnostic assessment, its sensitivity and specificity and the patient outcome after 30 days. Results: Our study is ongoing Conclusion: The study just reach the 2 part and we will be glad to present our data on the meeting EAN 2015. Disclosure: Nothing to disclose Y1 - 2015 VL - 22 IS - Suppl. 1 SP - 800 PB - Wiley ER -