"Stroke codes are the hottest of messes." That's how one of my emergency medicine colleagues put it to me recently. And you know what? She's probably right. The problem is that a ton of things have to ...

When someone who may be having a stroke is brought by EMS to New Hanover Regional Medical Center, a specialized medical team meets the patient at the door and immediately starts to evaluate their ...

The first systematic review, published in 2016, found that the Melbourne Ambulance Stroke Scale (MASS), Medic Prehospital Assessment for Code Stroke (MedPACS), and Ontario Prehospital Stroke Screening ...