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- How many items on the NIH stroke scale?
Answer: 11
- NIH Stroke scale is
Answer: an 11-item clinical evaluation instrument widely used in clinical trials and practice to assess neurologic outcome and degree of recovery from stroke.
- NIH Stroke Scale is used to quantify the effects of acute cerebral ischemia on
levels of ... (7 items) Answer: levels of: consciousness vision motor function (facial and extremities) cerebellar function sensation language extinction or inattention
- NIH SS is used to measure patient's status after a stroke and to assess the outcome
after
Answer: treatment
- Should the patient be coached? Should you go back and rethink a partic- ular
assessment?
Answer: NO
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- Having what when using NIH scale is important?
Answer: reference materials
- DO NOT RATE what you think the patient wants to do or what you think they can
do, RATE ONLY
Answer: rate only what they actually do
- use patient"s first response?
Answer: YES - DO NOT USE SUMMARY OF RE- SPONSES
- re ataxia score
1- if real weak, assume ataxia score is...2- if they can hold leg or arm up w/ minimal drift but are all over place when trying finger to nose test, that's probably...3) Important to know if ataxia is present or not and if present in or limbs 4) if patient very weak or paralyzed, the ataxia score is...
Answer:
1) 0 2) ataxia 3) 1 or 2 4) 0
- You should only score loss of sensation if you can really demonstrate...-
Answer: that they have loss of sensation
- if patient has sensory loss from neuropathy, do you count that?
Answer: no, but you do if there's loss on top of the neuropathy
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- aphasia is difficult because it can take a while to go through the battery and it
can be subjective as to whether it is one of which classification?
Answer: mild, mod, severe
- start to recognise aphasia when you meet them and start talking and you don't get
a history of...
Answer: what happened
- dysarthria is interesting because there are many cultural things about slurred ?
Answer: speech.
- Score is associated with prognosis?
Answer: YES
- Is NIH scale a measure of disability?
Answer: NO. The NIH scale is a measure of impairments.
- The NIH scale creates a common currency so that everybody under- stands the
patient's level of...Answer: deficit, by giving a number that communicates to other professionals how sick the patient is
- how much time to budget to perorm NIH scale
Answer: 7-10 mins
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