Opens in a new tab or window DENVER -- The Los Angeles Motor Scale (LAMS) can give emergency medical services (EMS) a streamlined ... interventions for acute stroke, a researcher said here.

Stroke outcome differs by race and gender, and this new study hones in on one factor which may contribute: the likelihood of calling EMS, said Dr. Heather Whitson, senior fellow at Duke University ...

At the EMS level, EMTs often use the Cincinnati Prehospital Stroke Scale to determine whether the patient is likely having a stroke. "The problem is, it doesn't differentiate a minor stroke from a ...

16 We hypothesized that, as compared with EMS, MSUs would reduce disability at 90 days after stroke ... on the modified Rankin scale, age, Black or non-Black race, sex, and dichotomized interval ...

In the study, the researchers found that when EMS used a three-item stroke scale to quickly evaluate patients and direct those with a suspected large vessel occlusion directly to comprehensive ...

007). Younger age, female gender, hyperlipidemia, lower score on the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, lower blood pressure, and no large vessel occlusion were associated with both ...

The MSTU operates seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. (The hours of operation derive from EMS data that indicate ... that the patient had an NIH Stroke Scale/Score of 6. The patient ...