The majority of the CaWs were symptomatic (72.9%) with a mean National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) admission score of 7.5. Atherosclerotic plaques and intramural thrombi were each ...

A project was developed to determine the barriers to NIHSS use by the nursing staff ... and a 5-point Likert scale (1 = weak belief, 5 = strong belief) to measure staff nurse beliefs.

score at discharge and delta National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score. Results Fifty patients were included. The most common LVO was the first segment of the middle cerebral artery in ...

The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale is used globally to rate neurological deficits in patients with acute stroke. Originally designed for research use, the scale uses idiosyncratic scoring ...

Methods 15 patients (mean age 60.6 years, mean National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score 2.25) and 10 age matched control subjects (mean age 63.3 years) participated in the study. We ...

The following baseline data from each study were collected: age, gender, the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score at admission, the Alberta Stroke Program Early CT Score (ASPECTS) ...