The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is accepted as the definitive clinical examination to assess stroke severity. This project examined barriers to implementation and NIHSS use ...

The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is accepted as the definitive clinical examination to assess stroke severity. This project examined barriers to implementation and NIHSS use by ...

We wanted 80% of stroke patients to have a completed, documented NIHSS on their chart at least once during their hospital stay.

Objective To develop an NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS)-compatible, all-in-one scale for rapid and comprehensive prehospital stroke assessment including stroke recognition, severity grading and progression ...

Secondary outcomes were a modified Rankin scale at time of discharge, an NIH Stroke Scale score at time of presentation and discharge, and incidence of intraprocedural hypotension. Results: A total of ...

In particular, stroke is a major disease leading to death in adults and elderly people, as well as disability. Rapid detection of stroke is very difficult because the cause and cause of the onset are ...

Endovascular therapy for acute ischemic stroke is generally avoided when the infarction is large, but the effect of endovascular therapy with medical care as compared with medical care alone for la ...

Purrucker JC, Härtig F, Richter H, Engelbrecht A, Hartmann J, Auer J, et al. Design and validation of a clinical scale for prehospital stroke recognition, severity grading and prediction of large ...