The Australian Paediatric Acute Code Stroke (PACS) study: closing the inequality gap between adults and children in best-practice stroke care.

Each year up to 600 Australian children suffer a stroke; 1 in 20 die and more than half of survivors will experience long-term impairments.
Time-critical clot-busting reperfusion therapies to salvage brain are the key to improving outcomes but there is a huge gap between adults and children in accessing these interventions.
Stroke Foundation will partner with the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, and researchers, health professionals, industry and patients to transform the care of children with stroke by dramatically decreasing time to diagnosis and increasing the number of children receiving reperfusion therapies.
This will be achieved through the design, development and implementation of a world-first national Paediatric Acute Code Stroke (PACS) protocol, employing innovative decision support tools and advanced imaging technologies.