STROKE STAT (Stroke Severity-based Triage to Accelerate Treatment)

Running, not enrolling

Conditions studied: Stroke

In brief

Acute stroke systems of care should emulate trauma systems which deliver the full range of care to all injured patients by means of organized, coordinated efforts in defined geographic areas. Just as trauma systems have proven ability to save lives of the most severely injured patients, clinicians should have a stroke system able to provide care to patients with the most severe strokes. The most severe type of acute ischemic stroke is due to proximal large vessel occlusion (LVO). Mechanical thrombectomy (MT) offers an extraordinary potential to improve the outcome of patients with LVO. Unfortunately, in part because MT is available only at advanced stroke centers, only a minority of patients with LVO are treated with MT, and there are racial, socioeconomic, and rural disparities in access to MT. Based on the success of trauma systems and our prior collaboration, the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) is planning a five-year statewide quality improvement initiative of trauma communications center (TCC) coordinated severity-based stroke triage (SBST) which aims to transform the fragmented acute stroke care system by coordinating prehospital and inter-facility emergency stroke care.

Key facts

Study ID: NCT04978480
Run by: University of Alabama at Birmingham
People needed: 4893
Starts: 2022-04-29
Expected to finish: 2026-12-31
Last updated by the study team: 2026-04-15

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

Patients entered into the Alabama stroke system by EMS
Suspected Large-Vessel Occlusion (score ≥ 4) based on a validated 6 item stroke severity scale, the Emergency Medical Stroke Assessment (EMSA)

You may not qualify if…

Patients who respond only to pain or who are unresponsive at the time of EMS evaluation based on the Alert, responds to Voice, responds to Pain and Unresponsive (AVPU) Scale
Patients with last known well time > 24 hours at the time of EMS evaluation

Where it is running

University of Alabama at Birmingham — Birmingham, Alabama, United States

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