Prehospital Stroke Triage to Route Patients Directly to a Thrombectomy Center: New York City First‐Year Experience

Background New York City Emergency Medical Services implemented a prehospital triage protocol using a modified Speech–Los Angeles Motor Scale to identify patients with large‐vessel occlusion. Patients with Speech–Los Angeles Motor Scale ≥4 and last known well within 5 hours were routed to the neares...

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Published in:Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology
Main Authors: Brian D. Kim, Jacob R. Morey, Naoum Fares Marayati, Stavros Matsoukas, Michael Redlener, Maryna Skliut, Danielle Wheelwright, Xiangnan Zhang, Stanley Tuhrim, Reade De Leacy, Laura Stein, J. Mocco, Johanna T. Fifi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2023-03-01
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/SVIN.122.000409