Field Assessment Stroke Triage for Emergency Destination A Simple and Accurate Prehospital Scale to Detect Large Vessel Occlusion Strokes

Correspondence to: Raul Gomes Nogueira, 49 Jesse Hill Drive SE Room# 333, Atlanta, GA 30303, raul.g.nogueira@emory.edu, Tel: (404)616-4013, Fax: (404)659-0849. DISCLOSURES Dr. Lima reports no disclosures. Dr. Silva reports no disclosures. Dr. Furie reports no disclosures Dr. Frankel reports no disclosures. Dr. Lev reports working as consultant for GE Healthcare, MLNM Pharm, MedyMatch and D-Pharm. He also reports receiving institution research support from GE Healthcare. Dr. Camargo reports no disclosures. Dr. Haussen reports no disclosures. Dr Singhal is deputy PI of the New England Regional Coordinating Center for the NIH StrokeNet. He reports receiving partial support from following NIH grants during the conduct of the study: R01NS051412, P50NS051343, R21NS077442, R21-NS085574 and U10NS086729. He is on ACTION stroke trial Advisory Board sponsored by Biogen. He is the site PI of stroke clinical trial sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim. Dr. Koroshetz reports no disclosures. Dr. Smith is a Consultant for Stryker Neurovascular, DSMB board. Dr. Nogueira is the PI for Trevo-2 Trial (sponsored by Stryker Neurovascular modest) and the DAWN trial (no compensation). He is on the Steering Committee of SWIFT Trial (modest) and SWIFT Prime (no compensation). He receives compensation from the STAR Trial (Angiographic Core Lab significant). He is also part of the Executive Committee for the Penumbra 3D separator Trial (no compensation). He is also Editor-In-Chief of the Interventional Neurology Journal (no compensation). HHS Public Access Author manuscript Stroke. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2017 August 01. Published in final edited form as: Stroke. 2016 August ; 47(8): 1997–2002. doi:10.1161/STROKEAHA.116.013301. A uhor M anscript

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