The consequences of a stroke can be reduced when the process is quickly identified by emergency medical personnel, and the patient receives a timely intervention. In order to facilitate the recognition and appropriate treatment of a stroke, doctors and research scientists have worked to develop scales that use a short set of measures to give patients a “score” that can help them assess what is happening in the patient and develop a treatment plan. The Ventura ELVO Score (VES), which measures the likelihood of an emergent large vessel occlusion (blockage of a coronary artery), is one such scale, and it has been used with great success to enhance outcomes in stroke patients.