Among patients with a mild-to-moderate acute noncardioembolic ischemic stroke (NIHSS score ≤5) or TIA who were not undergoing intravenous or endovascular thrombolysis, the risk of the composite ...

Education on the NIHSS was provided to the nurses in various forms: in-service sessions on the pathophysiology and neuroassessment of stroke by the unit's neuroscience clinical nurse specialist ...

There are a variety of stroke scales that doctors can use. However, the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is the most popular neurological examination tool to assess and quantify ...

The mean (±SD) NIHSS score for all patients in the trial was relatively high at 14.4±2.6. Most baseline clinical characteristics were well matched among the three groups, ...

The proportion of patients with an increase in NIHSS score of 4 points or more in the first 72 hours was 4.2% among those treated with tirofiban and 13.2% among those treated with oral aspirin, a ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Current anticoagulant or antiplatelet use is not necessarily a contraindication for administering tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) to a stroke patient in the emergency department ...

During the in-services, the importance of using the NIHSS was stressed. NIHSS assessments were scheduled to be completed on admission and every 8 hours thereafter for every stroke patient on the unit.