Picturing the Size and Site of Stroke With an Expanded National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale

Picturing the Size and Site of Stroke With an Expanded National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) includes minimal assessment of cognitive function, particularly in right hemisphere (RH) stroke. Descriptions of the Cookie Theft picture from the NIHSS allow analyses that (1) correlate with aphasia severity and (2) identify communication deficits in RH stroke. We hypothesized that analysis of the picture description...

National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS).

The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale: Its Role in Patients with Posterior Circulation Stroke.

The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is indispensable for both prognosis and treatment in patients with acute ischemic stroke. However, there is subtype of acute ischemic stroke (i.e., posterior circulation stroke) that is difficult to diagnose using the NIHSS. The authors report the limits of NIHSS in this stroke subtype, suggesting thereby the need to modify and render it mo...

Categorization of Ischemic Stroke Patients Compared with National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale.

INTRODUCTION Scientific guidelines recommend the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) for ischemic stroke (IS) assessment. In Clinical Department of Neurology of Split University Hospital Center nurses use the categorization of patients (COP) according to individual needs for health care. AIM The aim of this study was to demonstrate that there is a positive correlation between t...

Distribution of National Institutes of Health stroke scale in the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Stroke Study.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Little is known about the distribution of National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) scores from patients with ischemic stroke sampled from population-based studies. We describe the distribution of NIHSS in ischemic stroke cases from the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Stroke Study. METHODS Within a biracial population of 1.3 million, all strokes among area residen...