A brief prehospital stroke severity scale identifies ischemic stroke patients harboring persisting large arterial occlusions

Stroke

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2264-2267

  Nazliel, Bijen ^a,b   Starkman, Sidney ^a   Liebeskind, David S ^a   Ovbiagele, Bruce ^a   Kim, Doojin ^a   Sanossian, Nerses ^a   Ali, Latisha ^a   Buck, Brian ^a   Villablanca, Pablo ^a   Vinuela, Fernando ^a   Duckwiler, Gary ^a   Jahan, Reza ^a   Saver, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Tunali Hilimi Caddesi 34/10   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; Cerebral infarct; LAMS (Los Angeles Motor Scale); NIHSS; Scales

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HAND STRENGTH; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROC CURVE; STANDARD; STROKE; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE;

EID: 49849091548     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.508127     Document Type: Article

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