Neuroemergency trials require substantial infrastructure, close collaboration between pre-hospital, Emergency Department, and inpatient neurology/neurosurgery systems, and a dedicated group of physician, nurse, and paramedic researchers ready to invest time and resources to ensure trial success. These conditions strike suddenly, require immediate intervention in the pre-hospital or Emergency Department setting, and impair the self-awareness and decision-making capacity of the afflicted individual. The proposed Los Angeles Neurological Emergencies Treatment Trials Hub and Spoke Network brings together a consortium of 29 EMS Provider Agencies and 38 specialty receiving hospitals in the country's largest and most diverse County in a Hub and Spoke network designed to perform phase 3 NETT trials with high rates if recruitment and high quality of data collection and monitoring. The 4 aims of this proposal are to: 1) Perform high-quality NETT clinical trials in several different types of emergency neurological disorders afflicting adults or children throughout Los Angeles County; 2) Facilitate collaboration between emergency medicine physicians and neurological and neurosurgical disease specialists throughout Los Angeles County in trial design and execution; 3) Facilitate collaboration between the pre-hospital EMS system and acute receiving hospitals, including specialty receiving centers in trauma, stroke, and cardiac resuscitation, throughout Los Angeles County in trial design and execution; and 4) Ensure participation of a substantial number of patients with neurologic emergencies in NETT clinical trials, including women, Hispanic-Americans, African-Americans, and other minority populations.

Public Health Relevance

Emergency neurologic conditions afflicting the nervous system are an enormous cause of death and disability in the United States and the world, and include 3 of the 10 leading causes of death. In Los Angeles, the hospitals in the proposed Hub and Spoke Network will care for over 95,000 acute neurologic emergency patients during the 5 year Award Cycle.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Type
Cooperative Clinical Research--Cooperative Agreements (U10)
Project #
5U10NS080375-04
Application #
8885929
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZNS1-SRB-N (01))
Program Officer
Janis, Scott
Project Start
2012-09-01
Project End
2017-05-31
Budget Start
2015-06-01
Budget End
2016-05-31
Support Year
4
Fiscal Year
2015
Total Cost
$196,537
Indirect Cost
$50,109
Name
University of California Los Angeles
Department
Internal Medicine/Medicine
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
092530369
City
Los Angeles
State
CA
Country
United States
Zip Code
90095