Comparison of Acute Stroke Outcomes Between Code Trauma vs Code Stroke Activations
Jacob Brown, Mallory Jebbia, Esther Lee, Albert Kazi, Aaron Strumwasser, Byan Love, John Woods, Babak Khazaeni · 2025
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Jacob Brown and co-authors present a 2025 journal article on stroke patients who arrive as trauma cases. Some stroke victims are found down or fall, so they enter through trauma activation, which can slow brain care. The team compared 198 such patients with 208 standard code stroke patients at one trauma center.
Trauma-route patients were older, sicker on stroke scales, and far more often bleeding-type strokes. Their first brain scan took nearly twice as long, though clot treatment times matched once diagnosed. Fewer went home and more died, yet adjusted analysis blamed their worse starting state, not the trauma route itself. The authors urge vigilance for stroke hiding inside trauma calls.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jacob Brown, Mallory Jebbia, Esther Lee, Albert Kazi, Aaron Strumwasser, Byan Love, John Woods, Babak Khazaeni |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |