Los Angeles Motor Scale to Identify Large Vessel Occlusion: Prehospital Validation and Comparison With Other Screens.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Prehospital scales have been developed to identify patients with acute cerebral ischemia (ACI) because of large vessel occlusion (LVO) for direct routing to Comprehensive Stroke Centers (CSCs), but few have been validated in the prehospital setting, and their impact on routing of patients with intracranial hemorrhage has not been delineated. The purpose of this study was to validate the Los Angeles Motor Scale (LAMS) for LVO and CSC-appropriate (LVO ACI and intracranial hemorrhage patients) recognition and compare the LAMS to other scales.

Methods

The performance of the LAMS, administered prehospital by paramedics to consecutive ambulance trial patients, was assessed in identifying (1) LVOs among all patients with ACI and (2) CSC-appropriate patients a

SUBMITTER: Noorian AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5829024 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature