GHoSt

Summary: This study is to develop a rapid, non-invasive lateral flow test to help ambulance crews make decisions about patients with suspected stroke.

Status – Open

Ghost logo – an outline of a ghost over a brain

Area: Birmingham

100,000 people have strokes each year. Ambulance crews responding to patients with suspected stroke use the FAST test by checking the patient for difficulties with their face, arms, and speech.

Ghost fast test – Images demonstrating the different aspects of the FAST Test – F for Face, A for Arms, S for Speech and T for Time to call 999.

Ambulance crews need to take patients with stroke to specialist hospitals, which may not always be the nearest hospital – but we know that other conditions can also look like stroke. This can mean that patients are taken to distant hospitals when they could have been cared for closer to home.

The GHoSt study, funded by the Stroke Association, aims to develop a point-of-care test which can quickly tell whether a patient is having a stroke or a condition which mimics stroke.
For more information on the study visit the Stroke.org website.

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