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National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale
One more problem to correct. It bills itself as an objective scale. Testing secondary problems is not helpful. The best solution would be to quantify the dead area size and location, then quantify the penumbra size and location. The existing scale has absolutely no use in any type of comparison or usefulness in therapy. But our doctors continue down this stupidity. My score would have been 11 - moderate. That told no one anything useful.
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National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale
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The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, or NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is a tool used by healthcare providers to objectively quantify the impairment caused by a stroke. The NIHSS is composed of 11 items, each of which scores a specific ability between a 0 and 4. For each item, a score of 0 typically indicates normal function in that specific ability, while a higher score is indicative of some level of impairment. The individual scores from each item are summed in order to calculate a patient's total NIHSS score. The maximum possible score is 42, with the minimum score being a 0 .....
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