Design and Validation of a Prehospital Stroke Scale to Predict Large Arterial Occlusion: The Rapid Arterial Occlusion Evaluation Scale [Clinical Sciences]

Conclusions— The RACE scale is a simple tool that can accurately assess stroke severity and identify patients with acute stroke with large artery occlusion at prehospital setting by medical emergency technicians.

http://stroke.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/short/45/1/87?rss=1

Source: Stroke - December 23, 2013 Category: Neurology Authors: Perez de la Ossa, N., Carrera, D., Gorchs, M., Querol, M., Millan, M., Gomis, M., Dorado, L., Lopez-Cancio, E., Hernandez-Perez, M., Chicharro, V., Escalada, X., Jimenez, X., Davalos, A. Tags: Cerebrovascular disease/stroke, Acute Cerebral Infarction, Emergency treatment of Stroke Clinical Sciences Source Type: research