Transauricular nerve stimulation in acute ischaemic stroke requiring mechanical thrombectomy: Protocol for a phase 2A, proof-of-concept, sham-controlled randomised trial

• Gareth L. Ackland ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: g.ackland@qmul.ac.uk

  Affiliation Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0565-5164

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• Tim Martin,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• Mareena Joseph,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• Priyanthi Dias,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1740-6165

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• Rizwan Hameed,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7083-3062

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• Ana Gutierrez del Arroyo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• Russ Hewson,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Software

  Affiliation Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• Tom E. F. Abbott,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8664-3001

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• Oliver Spooner,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Stroke Medicine, London, Royal London Hospital, London, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

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• Pervinder Bhogal

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Interventional Neuroradiology, Royal London Hospital, London, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

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