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  2. National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale - Wikipedia

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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 and aid planning post-acute care disposition, though was intended to assess differences in interventions in clinical trials. The NIHSS was designed for the National ...

  3. Cincinnati Prehospital Stroke Scale - Wikipedia

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    The Cincinnati Prehospital Stroke Scale (abbreviated CPSS) is a system used to diagnose a potential stroke in a prehospital setting. [1] It tests three signs for abnormal findings which may indicate that the patient is having a stroke.

  4. List of institutes and centers of the National Institutes of ...

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    In July 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Dr. Francis S. Collins, M.D., PhD, to be the Director of the NIH. On August 7, 2009, the US Senate confirmed Collins by a unanimous vote. Program offices within the Office of the Director fund research through the institutes:

  5. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

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    The mission of NINDS is "to reduce the burden of neurological disease—a burden borne by every age group, every segment of society, and people all over the world". [3] NINDS has established two major branches for research: an extramural branch that funds studies outside the NIH, and an intramural branch that funds research inside the NIH.

  6. Modified Rankin Scale - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] It was then modified by either van Swieten et al. [5] or perhaps Prof. C. Warlow's group at Western General Hospital in Edinburgh for use in the UK-TIA study in the late 1980s to include the value '0' for patients who had no symptoms. [6] As late as 2005 [7] the scale was still being reported as ranging from 0 to 5. Somewhere between ...

  7. Los Angeles Prehospital Stroke Screen - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 22 December 2022, at 02:37 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  8. National Institutes of Health - Wikipedia

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    The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in 1887 and is now part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

  9. FAST (stroke) - Wikipedia

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    BE-FAST has shown promise and is currently being studied as an alternative method to the FAST acronym. [5]B - balance degradation - increase in difficulty of maintaining balance while walking (especially when using stairs or changing direction), or standing (especially when standing on one foot); now needing assistance using a hand on something such as a hand-rail or cane.