Hospitals' Plans of Care Resources

• NIH Stroke Scale (National Institutes of Health)



• AHA/ASA Stroke Algorithm, based on the Get With The Guidelines Toolbox (American Heart Association/American Stroke Association)



• tPA Litigation: Emergency Physicians More Likely To Be Sued by Stroke Patients Who Do Not Receive (American College of Emergency Physicians)



• Genentech Pocket Cards for Acute Ischemic Stroke (Genentech)



• List of Clinical Pathway Examples (Brain Attack Coalition)



• List of Stroke Scales (Hospital and Pre-Hospital) (Brain Attack Coalition)



• 2007 Guidelines for the Early Management of Adults With Ischemic Stroke (Stroke, 2007;38;1655-1711)



• Elements of a Primary Stroke Center (Brain Attack Coalition)



• July 2005 Recommended Elements of a Primary Stroke Center (Brain Attack Coalition)



• Activase Clinical Library (Activase)



• Stroke Assessment Tools (Activase)



• Guidelines and consensus statements on the use of Activase (t-PA) in acute ischemic stroke (Activase)



• Activase Stroke Team and Center Support (Activase)



• tPA Patient Fact Sheet from Activase (Activase)



• Telestroke Networks throughout the United States (Activase, network information current as of August 2009)



• Expanding the Window for Administration of tPA in Ischemic Stroke (Pharmacists Letter/Prescriber's Letter; July 2009;25; 250717)



• ECASS III Trial (Stroke, 2009;40:2262)



• Geographic and Sociodemographic Disparities in Drive Times to Joint Commission–Certified Primary Stroke Centers in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia (Preventing Chronic Disease, 2011; 8(4):A79.)



• Target: Stroke. Time Lost is Brain Lost (American Heart Association/American Stroke Association)

For more information about prehospital stroke assessments, please see the EMS page.