Objectives To compare prehospital time for patients with suspected stroke in Florida with the
American Stroke Association (ASA) time benchmarks, and to investigate the effects of …

Background Outcomes for stroke patients can be improved by rapid identification and
assessment, but delays commonly occur due to the availability of clinical information and …

Background and Purpose: The Stockholm Stroke Triage System, implemented in 2017,
identifies patients with high likelihood of large vessel occlusion (LVO) stroke. A previous …

Thrombolytic therapy for acute ischemic stroke is receiving wide attention and has been
advocated in emergency medicine literature1 and by the Canadian Stroke Consortium, a …

Objectives & Background With 1.9 million neurons lost every minute a stroke is untreated,
rapid assessment and management is a time critical medical emergency, and is reliant on …

Background Less than 50% of stroke patients in Norway reach hospital within 4 h of
symptom onset. Early prehospital identification of stroke and triage to the right level of care …

Background and Purpose: A simple, easily adoptable scale with good performance
characteristics is needed for EMS providers to appropriately triage suspected stroke patients …

Stroke patients not eligible for acute intervention often have low priority and may spend long
time at the emergency department (ED) waiting for admission. The aim of this retrospective …

Background and Purpose—The impact of transfer status on clinical outcomes in the DAWN
(DWI or CTP Assessment With Clinical Mismatch in the Triage of Wake-Up and Late …

Objective: To assess the determinants of prehospital delay for patients with presumed acute
cerebral ischemia (ACI) in order to provide the background necessary to develop …