Publications Related to FAST-MAG Trial
by FAST-MAG Investigators

FAST-MAG Pilot Trial

Saver JL, Kidwell C, Eckstein M, Ovbiagele B, Starkman S, for the FAST-MAG Pilot Trial Investigators. Physician-investigator phone elicitation of consent in the field: a novel method to obtain explicit informed consent for prehospital clinical research. Prehospital Emergency Care 2006;10:182-5.

Saver JL, Kidwell C, Eckstein M, Starkman S, for the FAST-MAG Pilot Trial Investigators. Prehospital neuroprotective therapy for acute stroke: results of the Field Administration of Stroke Therapy – Magnesium (FAST-MAG) Pilot Trial. Stroke 2004;35:e106-e108. (DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000124458.98123.52)

Saver JL, Kidwell CS, Eckstein M, Starkman S, FAST-MAG Pilot Trial Investigators. High accuracy of LAPSS-guided paramedic selection of stroke patients for field-delivery of neuroprotective therapy. Stroke 2003;34:279A.


Los Angeles Prehospital Stroke Screen

Saver JL, Kidwell CS, Eckstein M, Starkman S. Emerging applications of the Los Angeles Prehospital Stroke Screen (LAPSS), a validated tool for prehospital stroke recognition. The Stroke Interventionalist 2001;2(3):6-7.

Kidwell CS, Starkman S, Eckstein M, Weems K, Saver JL. Identifying stroke in the field: prospective validation of the Los Angeles Prehospital Stroke Screen (LAPSS). Stroke 2000;31:71-76.

Kidwell CS, Saver JL, Schubert GB, Eckstein M, Starkman S. Design and retrospective analysis of the Los Angeles Prehospital Stroke Screen (LAPSS). Prehospital Emergency Care 1998;2:267-273.


Los Angeles Motor Scale

Llanes JN, Kidwell CS, Starkman S, Leary MC, Eckstein M, Saver JL. The Los Angeles Motor Scale (LAMS): A new measure for characterizing stroke severity in the field. Prehospital Emergency Care 2004;8:46-50.

Ferguson KN, Kidwell CS, Starkman S, Eckstein M, Saver JL. Inter-rater and intra-rater reliability of the Los Angeles Motor Scale (LAMS), a prehospital measure of stroke severity. Stroke 2002;33:384.
 

roprotective agents for the treatment of acute ischemic stroke. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports 2003;3:9-20.

Ferguson KN, Kidwell CS, Starkman S, Saver JL. Hyperacute treatment initiation in neuroprotective stroke trials. Neurology 2002;58(suppl 3):A387.

Kidwell CS, Liebeskind DS, Starkman S, Saver JL. Trends in ischemic stroke trials through the 20th century. Stroke 2001;32:1349-1359.

Liebeskind DS, Kidwell CS, Saver JL. Meta-analysis of acute stroke trials employing neuroprotective agents. Neurology 1998;50:A346.


Publications from the FAST-MAG Phase 3 Trial Award

Stewart D, Marder VJ, Starkman S, Saver JL. Magnesium sulfate neither potentiates nor inhibits tissue plasminogen activator induced thrombolysis. J Thromb Haemost 2006; 4: 1575–9.

Saver JL. Time is brain--quantified. Stroke 2006;37:263-6.
 

 

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