How many items on the NIH stroke scale? - ✔✔ 11
NIH Stroke scale is - ✔✔ an 11-item clinical evaluation instrument widely used in clinical
... [Show More] 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) - ✔✔ 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 - ✔✔ treatment
Should the patient be coached? Should you go back and rethink a particular assessment? - ✔✔ NO
Having what when using NIH scale is important? - ✔✔ reference materials
DO NOT RATE what you think the patient wants to do or what you think they can do, RATE ONLY - ✔✔ rate only what they actually do
use patient"s first response? - ✔✔ YES - DO NOT USE SUMMARY OF RESPONSES
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... - ✔✔ 1) 0
2) ataxia
3) 1 or 2
4) 0
You should only score loss of sensation if you can really demonstrate... - ✔✔ that they have loss of sensation
if patient has sensory loss from neuropathy, do you count thatt? - ✔✔ no, but you do if there's loss on top of the neuropathy
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? - ✔✔ mild, mod, severe
start to recognise aphasia when you meet them and start talking and you don't get a history of... - ✔✔ what happened
dysarthria is interesting because there are many cultural things about slurred ________? - ✔✔ speech.
Score is associated with prognosis? - ✔✔ YES
Is NIH scale a measure of disability? - ✔✔ NO. The NIH scale is a measure of impairments.
The NIH scale creates a common currency so that everybody understands the patient's level of... - ✔✔ deficit, by giving a number that communicates to other professionals how sick the patient is
how much time to budget to perorm NIH scale - ✔✔ 7-10 mins
What effort should be recorded? Do not do what? - ✔✔ The patient's first effort. Don't go back and change scores.
IMPORTANT CONVENTIONS IN ADMINISTRATION:
Administer scale items in their exact ______
-Avoid ______ing patient
-Accept patient's _______ effort
-Score only what the patient _______
-Be consistent
-Include all _________s into scoring, including those that may be from _________s ______s - ✔✔ -order
-coaching
-first
-does
-Be consistent
-previous strokes
ITEM 1a and how to get it - ✔✔ -examiner's overall impression of patient alertness
-ask 2-3 questions about circumstances of admission, stimuate patient by patting or tapping, occasionally pinching
NIH Item 1a Scoring:
0
1
2
3 - ✔✔ -Alert
-Not alert, aroused w/ minor verbal stim
-Not alert, requires strong or painful stim
-Only reflexive movements or totally unresponsive
ITEM 1a - patient w/ 3 on this item is generally considered to be in...
3 is scored ONLY if patient makes no movement other than.... - ✔✔ a coma
reflexive posturing in response to noxious stimulation
If difficult to determine 1 vs 2 in item 1a, continue with... - ✔✔ medical hx qs until confident in assigning a score - THIS IS ONLY TIME IN NIH scale where you can go back
EVEN IF PRESENTED WITH OBSTACLES OR BARRIERS, YOU MUST CHOOSE A - ✔✔ SCORE
NIH Item 1B
based on responses to two items:
When?
-What about patient - ✔✔ -month of year
-patient's age
ITEM 1B SCORING
0
1
2 - ✔✔ -answers both qs correctly
-answers 1 q correctly OR patients unable to communicate d/t intubation, oral-tracheal trauma, severe dysarthria from any cause, language barrier, or any issue not secondary to aphasia
-answers neither question correctly --> a 3 on 1a must be a 2 on 1b
A patient that cannot speak but is otherwise able to communicate can be allowed to convey the answer how? - ✔✔ writing
If the patient answers incorrectly first and then corrects self, how is the answer scored? - ✔✔ it is still scored as incorrect
What if patient gives DOB as answer to question asking for their age? How is this scored?
Is there credit for partial answers that are close like being off a month when answering what month it is? - ✔✔ This is scored as a WRONG answer.
NO
NIH 1C is what?
Make sure to position what in testable position - ✔✔ Commands
Eyes and Hands
NIH 1C
ask patient to do how many actions and what are they? - ✔✔ 3 commands
"close your eyes for me"
"now open them"
"now make a fist with your hand"
NIH 1C - may I repeat the commands?
May I encourage?
May I pantomime command? [Show Less]