Background Rapid prehospital identification of acute ischemic stroke secondary to large vessel occlusions (AIS-LVO) has been successful in triaging patients, but the use of stroke screening scales ...

Clinical practice guidelines for stroke provide recommendations applicable to patients with or at risk of developing cerebrovascular disease. The focus is on medical practice in the United States, but ...

Patients with a modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score ≥ 3 before stroke were excluded to minimize confounding from pre-existing disability, which could independently affect post-stroke outcomes. This ...

Werring's group reported a mean age of 77.7 years, with 45.4% women and median NIH Stroke Scale score of 5. These were patients with smaller infarct sizes and not at risk for hemorrhagic ...

The NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is an attractive candidate predictor of disposition because it is widely used, is easily learned, and can be performed rapidly on admission. Methods— We present a ...

Glasgow Coma Scale in Children There are many difficulties in applying the GCS to pediatric patients, especially regarding the verbal scale, which is obviously inappropriate in very young children ...

Data were collected through a stroke registry to determine the percentage of stroke patients for whom at least one documented NIHSS assessment was completed during the hospital stay.