Design and Validation of a Prehospital Scale to Predict Stroke Severity: Cincinnati Prehospital Stroke Severity Scale

Stroke

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1508-1512

  Katz, Brian S ^a   McMullan, Jason T ^a   Sucharew, Heidi ^b   Adeoye, Opeolu ^a   Broderick, Joseph P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

acute stroke; NIHSS; prehospital emergency care; severe stroke; vessel occlusion

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ARM WEAKNESS; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CINCINNATI PREHOSPITAL STROKE SEVERITY SCALE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY ASSESSMENT; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE PATIENT; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; MALE; NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE; OHIO; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84942887348     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.115.008804     Document Type: Article

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