Medical Student Research Fellowship for Summer 2005

Mentor: D. Hal Unwin, MD
Department: Neurology
Room number: CS5.522
Mail Code: 8897
Phone number: 83256
E-mail: hal.unwin@utsouthwestern.edu
Project title: Regional Ambulance Triage System for Stroke in a large urban setting

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Project Type (patient-based research, animal-based research, or basic research; this characterization is only to permit a general classification for grouping similar types of projects) Patient-based

Brief Description of Project:
In August 2002, the Dallas Stroke Council initiated an acute stroke triage system with the Dallas Fire Department. Since that time, almost 900 patients have been triaged to one of three stroke receiving hospitals in Dallas. The student as an integral member of the acute stroke team at UTSW will, in collaboration with Ray Fowler, MD in Emergency Medicine, compile the outcomes of the triaged patients and the effectiveness of the Dallas Stroke Scale in diagnosis of acute stroke. Data will be obtained from patients admitted to Parkland, Baylor, and Presbyterian Hospitals. The student will be trained and certified in the NIH Stroke Scale and Barthel Index of Disability.

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