StrokeVAN App

What is Stroke VAN?

It is a way to tell if someone is having a large artery stroke. Large artery stroke types tend to have worse outcomes and disable people. They are best treated with the additional use of Neurointerventional clot retrieval. Using VAN can assist people in getting loved ones in a center that performs these procedures, in turn giving them the best possible chance of functioning independently.

What Does VAN Stand For?

Vision – Can someone see to the left, right, up and down?
Aphasia – Medical term for understanding language and producing language.
Neglect – When some one looks to one side and ignores the other side. They usual have eyes looking to left or right.

Why Was it Developed?

There are other large artery stroke / large vessel occlusion (LVO) screening tools but some are longer, some are less accurate, and some over estimate the number of people that actually have a large clot. We had a genuine desire to get patients that have a massive stroke to the appropriate care faster. VAN allows us to identify these patients in the field by loved ones, EMS, and as soon as patient arrives to the hospital by trained nurses.