Medscape2d
Successful Implementation of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale on a Stroke/Neurovascular Unit
A project was developed to determine the barriers to NIHSS use by the nursing staff, to develop and implement a plan to improve the completion rate, and to evaluate progress as interventions were ...
Medscape4d
Successful Implementation of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale on a Stroke/Neurovascular Unit
The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is a well-validated, reliable scoring system for use specifically with stroke patients (Goldstein, Bertels, & Davis, 1989; Lyden et al., ...
Healio25d
Neural stem cell transplant improves outcomes for chronic ischemic stroke at 12 months
Secondary outcomes included performance on a gait speed test, Barthel Index (BI), NIH Stroke Scale score (NIHSS), Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) MRI, resting state fMRI and ...
BMJ28d
Associations with health-related quality of life after intracerebral haemorrhage: pooled analysis of INTERACT studies
Demographic, clinical and radiological factors associated with lower EQ-5D utility score were age, randomisation outside of China, antithrombotic use, high baseline National Institutes of Health ...
jnis.bmj26d
Optimal thresholds to predict long-term outcome after complete endovascular recanalization in acute anterior ischemic stroke
Optimal thresholds for the overall most important variables to predict functional independence were (1) National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score ≤5 after 24 hours (area under the curve ...
verywellhealth11d
Signs and Symptoms of Stroke
Strokes are treatable, so it is important to be able to recognize a stroke so that you can get the right emergency treatment as quickly as possible. If you see or experience any of the following ...
Physician's Weekly14d
Risk Factors for Neurological Deterioration in Single Subcortical Small Infarction
The following is a summary of “Clinical and imaging risk factors for early neurological deterioration and long-term ...
The Boston Globe9d
NIH needs reforms, but use a scalpel, not a hatchet
Dr. Jeffrey S. Flier is professor of medicine and physiology at Harvard Medical School. Pierre Azoulay is an economist and professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Weaknesses in NIH’s 70 ...
New York Post5d
People with this blood type are 16% more likely to have a stroke before the age 60
Not to B-negative, but your blood type could offer a clue to your risk of having a stroke before 60. “The number of people with early strokes is rising,” said Dr. Steven J. Kittner, co ...
STAT7d
At ‘Stand Up for Science’ rally, Francis Collins warns major NIH research programs ‘at severe risk’
WASHINGTON — Days after retiring from the National Institutes of Health, the agency’s former director warned that two signature programs — an initiative to decipher how the brain works, and ...
STAT9d
NIH nominee is ‘convinced’ vaccines don’t cause autism, but won’t rule out more studies on the issue
Jay Bhattacharya, President Trump’s nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health, stated during his confirmation hearing Wednesday that he’s “convinced” by the data showing there is ...