| Title: |
Ambulance Clinical Triage for Acute Stroke Treatment ; Paramedic Triage Algorithm for Large Vessel Occlusion |
| Authors: |
Zhao, Henry; Pesavento, Lauren; Coote, Skye; Rodrigues, Edrich; Salvaris, Patrick; Smith, Karen; Bernard, Stephen; Stephenson, Michael; Churilov, Leonid; Yassi, Nawaf; Davis, Stephen M.; Campbell, Bruce C.V. |
| Source: |
Stroke ; volume 49, issue 4, page 945-951 ; ISSN 0039-2499 1524-4628 |
| Publisher Information: |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
| Publication Year: |
2018 |
| Description: |
Background and Purpose— Clinical triage scales for prehospital recognition of large vessel occlusion (LVO) are limited by low specificity when applied by paramedics. We created the 3-step ambulance clinical triage for acute stroke treatment (ACT-FAST) as the first algorithmic LVO identification tool, designed to improve specificity by recognizing only severe clinical syndromes and optimizing paramedic usability and reliability. Methods— The ACT-FAST algorithm consists of (1) unilateral arm drift to stretcher |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| DOI: |
10.1161/strokeaha.117.019307 |
| DOI: |
10.1161/STROKEAHA.117.019307 |
| Availability: |
https://doi.org/10.1161/strokeaha.117.019307; https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/STROKEAHA.117.019307 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.6AC78DBC |
| Database: |
BASE |