You've probably heard that every moment counts when someone has a stroke.

At the University of Kentucky, doctors are using artificial intelligence to make sure valuable time isn't being wasted.

See how in today's medical news.

The reason that this became a crucial tool for us is in my role and my colleagues role, we take care of acute the stomach stroke or basically acute blocked blood vessels in people's brains.

And it's estimated that if you have a blocked blood vessel in your brain, you're losing it somewhere upwards of close to 2 million neurons or nerve cells every minute that ticks by.

And then over the last decade, we started doing a procedure here called Mechanical Thrombectomy, that is essentially think of it like, you know, the plumber in your house cleaning the pipes.

We can run little tubes up into the blood vessels of the brain and reopen that blood vessel in just a matter of minutes.

And the key, though, is getting the patients on to the table.

The way that this tool, this app, is to generating is that it can automatically detect certain types of pathologies like like a blood blocked blood vessel, a brain or a brain hemorrhage or brain bleed.

We look at the scans, too, but it's a nice trigger, if you will, to alert us that there's something going on.

The app doesn't just detect ischemic stroke and can detect brain bleeds.

It can help us coordinate outpatient referrals for non-emergent blood vessel problems in the brain like a someone is diagnosed with an aneurysm, you know, and needs to see us in the clinic to discuss that and figure out if they need treatment.

Before it was a phone call where a doctor from your hospital say, I think this patient's having a bad stroke.

And we weren't looking at the pictures.

We were just kind of talking to each other and we'd say, Send them all to UK.

And so a lot of patients would get here and they didn't need the thrombectomy or it was too late, or for some reason they couldn't get the procedure.

What this does is it kind of virtually brings us to the bedside throughout Kentucky to have that discussion with the emergency doctors figure out, Hey, is this patient truly going to benefit?

Do they not need to come to UK?

You know, can they be treated very well?

Where they are in that hospital, you know, somewhere else in the bluegrass that we work with and coordinate with.

And so it helps cut down on unnecessary transfers to and helps keep patients in their communities.

The company behind Visit said it has signed with more than 900 hospitals and has been approved by Medicare.