We prospectively applied 8 stroke screening scales (BE-FAST, LAMS, PASS, FAST-ED, EMS RACE, 3-ISS, VAN, and NIHSS ... (n=124), and 84.4% were African American/Black (n=168). The LAMS scale had the ...

Large vessel occlusion-type strokes are urgent enough that a single clinical scale utilized for detection in a pre-hospital ...

The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is a well-validated, reliable scoring system for use specifically with stroke patients (Goldstein, Bertels, & Davis, 1989; Lyden et al., ...

Nurses on the stroke/neurovascular unit at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center (PSVMC) in Portland, OR, care for approximately 500 stroke patients per year. Nursing staff members used the ...

The former Hartford Civic Center will shed its XL Center name — the identity of the 16,000-seat arena since 2007 — effective immediately, as part of a multi-year naming rights agreement with a ...

we sought to quantify access to PSCs by race and ethnicity and to compare rt‐PA use at PSCs and non‐PSCs. We hypothesized that disparities would be reduced at PSCs compared to hospitals without ...

Prestroke disability was defined as modified Rankin Scale score 2 or 3. Functional outcome at 90 days was centrally assessed by a blinded evaluator of the Catalan Stroke Program. Favorable outcome (to ...