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 ...

The researchers measured self-perceived stress among all participants using an altered version of the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS ... not appear linked to severity of stroke.

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has allowed two new patents for Remedy Pharmaceuticals’ Cirara, aimed at treating ...

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

Remedy Pharmaceuticals, a leader in stroke drug development, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has allowed two additional patents covering its large hemispheric ...

The purpose of this study is to examine the association between race and ethnicity and ischemic stroke severity in the United States. We included 231 396 stroke discharges with a mean National ...

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 ...

Clinical data: admission time, neurological examination results, complications. The severity of stroke was assessed using the NIHSS (National Institute of Health Strokes Scale). Paraclinical data: ...

The fifth hypothesis is that the baseline severity of MC impairment ... measured by the National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) (65), will be extracted from the Stroke Registry. The Stroke ...