Differences in Characteristics and Ambulance Pathway Adherence Between Strokes and Mimics Presenting to a Large UK Centralized Hyper Acute Stroke Unit (HASU)

Differences in Characteristics and Ambulance Pathway Adherence Between Strokes and Mimics Presenting to a Large UK Centralized Hyper Acute Stroke Unit (HASU)

Background: In Greater Manchester (GM), prehospital clinicians use the Face Arm Speech Test (FAST) to identify suspected stroke patients alongside pathway exclusions. Within the centralized stroke service, patients with a suspected stroke are taken directly to a Hyper Acute Stroke Unit (HASU), often...

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Main Authors: Camilla Sammut-Powell, Christopher Ashton, Kyriaki Paroutoglou, Adrian Parry-Jones
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
Subjects:
stroke recognition
stroke mimics
prehospital/EMS
pathway exclusions
suspected stroke
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2021.646015/full

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