ASSESSING STROKE –SCORES & SCALES
PREHOSPITAL STROKE ASSESSMENT SCALES (CONTINUED) SEVERITY SCALES FOR LARGE VESSEL OCCLUSION Why you can’t have a perfect scale: • Up top 29% of patient with baseline of NIHSS =0 had a proximal occlusion on CTA • Most scales are subsets of NIHSS scores • Patients with ICH, post seizure paralysis, hyperglycemia in the field can have high ...
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