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Acute Stroke: Prehospital Versus In-HospitAL Initiation of Recanalization Therapy- ASPHALT

RecruitingNAAges 18 Years - anyAllCentre Hospitalier St Anne
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In plain words

What the trial is, and whether it could suit you

ASPHALT is an academic-driven open-label randomized controlled trial of Mobile Stroke Unit (MSU) deployment versus standard care in France, with blinded assessment of efficacy endpoints. 450 patients with confirmed acute ischemic stroke will be recruited over a 3-year period, with 3-month follow-up.

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📋 Eligibility rules (as published)
Inclusion Criteria: * Emergency call to one of the two following emergency medical service (EMS) dispatch centers : SAMU (Service d'Aide Médicale Urgente) or BSPP (Brigade des Sapeurs Pompiers de Paris), between 08:00 and 18:00, 5 days a week (Monday to Friday). * Suspected acute stroke according to a dispatcher stroke identification algorithm, adapted from the ROSIER scale * Symptom onset-to-randomization time ≤ 6h * Patient located within the predefined catchment area of the MSU * MSU available at the time of the EMS call * Informed consent (as approved by the ethics committee, informed consent will be obtained after randomization: at the arrival of the MSU (intervention group), or at hospital arrival (control group)) Exclusion Criteria: * Patient confined to be more than 50% of waking hours * Unknown or uncertain onset time (e.g. wake-up stroke) * Medical history of epilepsy * Recent epileptic seizure (\<12 hrs) * Suspicion of pregnancy * Parturient or breastfeeding woman * Patient already participating in another interventional study, which could influence the mRS at 3 months. * Patient under guardianship or curatorship * Patient not affiliated to French Social Security
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What it tests

  • Mobile Stroke Unit deployment
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Where

11 sites
AP-HP - hôpital Raymond Poincaré
Garches, France
AP-HP - hôpital Bicêtre
Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
AP-HP - hôpital Lariboisière
Paris, France
AP-HP - hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière
Paris, France
GHU Paris psychiatrie & neurosciences
Paris, France
SAMU 75 de Paris
Paris, France
BSPP, Brigade des Sapeurs-Pompiers de Paris
Paris, France
AP-HP - hôpital Bichat - Claude-Bernard
Paris, France

…and 3 more on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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