Stroke Code

Stroke Code is a robust clinical decision support and evaluation tool designed to increase the speed, accuracy, and efficacy of acute stroke care from door to needle. Stroke Code has been developed by the U.S Department of Veterans Affairs as a commercial-grade mobile app to facilitate the evaluation and treatment of a patient during an episode of acute stroke care. This powerful tool integrates the latest NIH stroke scale and scoring criterion with current American Heart Association stroke care guidelines, and provides real-time guidance for alteplase (t-PA) as well as endovascular transfer decisions in a simple-to-use app. Stroke Code is designed to be used at the patient’s bedside or used in telehealth scenarios with a remote neurologist conducting the code stroke. It can be used by any medical staff in support of the attending neurologist and/or used by the neurologist themself.   Stroke Code offers: * Real-time assistance to help accurately diagnose stroke conditions * Automatic production of formatted time-stamped documentation for the episode of care, suitable for use in medical record clinical notes * Capture of door time, last known well, glucose level, weight, NIH Stroke Scale evaluation, and more * Alteplase guidance based on vitals and data captured through interaction with the stroke patient * Care-process guidance with checks and balances for treatment options, warnings and alerts * Utility in bedside use or in conjunction with telehealth medical staff interaction * Activity reminders during the episode of care to ensure continued accurate assessment of the stroke condition * more… 1.9 million neurons die every minute during a stroke. Stroke Code is designed to accelerate the episode of acute care by shaving off minutes and seconds during the critical “golden hour" thereby providing the best chance to reduce or even eliminate perceptible brain damage. “Time is Brain” - Camilo Gomez, M.D.