Aspiration pneumonia in post-stroke patients showed significantly increased 90-day mortality, longer hospital stays, and more ...

The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is accepted as the definitive clinical examination to assess stroke severity. This project examined barriers to implementation and NIHSS use ...

Some users believe that scale completion is too time consuming ... Hence, the NIHSS may underestimate stroke severity in the right hemisphere (Woo et al., 1999). In addition, although many ...

Acute ischemic stroke, which occurs due to a blockage in cerebral blood flow, requires prompt intervention with thrombolytic ...

Primary and secondary outcome measures In addition to EPO and Hb, initial stroke severity was assessed by the Scandinavian Stroke Scale (SSS) and compared with SSS after 3 months (follow-up) as a ...

They form a hierarchical scale that measures recovery ... it seems to be largely independent of the overall severity of the stroke.

France's food safety agency has recommended a ban on soy-based products in mass catering, raising concerns that have been ...

After adjusting for pre-stroke cognition, college-educated stroke survivors had a sharper post-stroke drop in executive ...

The following is a summary of “Effect of sarcopenia on prognosis in patients with mild acute ischemic stroke: a prospective ...

Summit Valley, identified as a very high-risk zone, is home to the large-scale Silverwood housing development ... categorize fire severity levels as moderate, high and very high in San Bernardino ...

Imagine you're at a dinner party and the person sitting across the table from you suddenly stops making sense, and not ...

A 23-year-old woman presents to the emergency department (ED) with a sudden onset of a thunderclap headache that she describes as the “worst headache of her life.” ...