Stroke 1-2-0-3-6: rapid identification and timely action for stroke in China

Chen Chen; Ziwei Hou; Li Li; Ruiying Wang; Hong Liu; Hui Shen

doi:10.3389/fneur.2025.1537895

Stroke 1-2-0-3-6: rapid identification and timely action for stroke in China

Front Neurol. 2025 Apr 2:16:1537895. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2025.1537895. eCollection 2025.

Authors

Chen Chen¹, Ziwei Hou^#², Li Li¹, Ruiying Wang³, Hong Liu¹, Hui Shen⁴

Affiliations

¹ Shanxi Cardiovascular Hospital, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
² Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China.
³ Department of Neurology, Changzhi No. 2 People's Hospital of Shanxi Province, Changzhi, Shanxi, China.
⁴ Department of Neurology, Shanxi Cardiovascular Hospital, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

In 2016, doctors in China proposed the Chinese version of FAST, called Stroke 120, to improve stroke identification and response in the Chinese population. And we modified Stroke 120 by adding "3" and "6" which aimed to reduce the prehospital delays and improve the prognosis of patients with stroke.

Keywords: 1-2-0-3-6; China; rapid identification; stroke; timely action.

Publication types

Review

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research and/or publication of this article. This work was financially supported by Four Batches Innovation Project of Invigorating Medical through Science a Technology of Shanxi Province (2022XM07); Scientific Research Incentive Fund of Shanxi Cardiovascular Hospital (XYS20220107); Shanxi Province Chinese Medicine Science and Technology special research project (2024ZYY2A023).