Reliability of Prehospital Real-Time Cellular Video Phone in Assessing the Simplified National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale in Patients With Acute Stroke
Author(s) -
Manuel González,
Nazeeh Hanna,
M.E. Rodrigo,
Lowell F. Satler,
Ron Waksman
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.110.600296
Subject(s) - medicine , stroke (engine) , acute stroke , reliability (semiconductor) , emergency medicine , medical emergency , scale (ratio) , phone , emergency department , nursing , mechanical engineering , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , engineering , linguistics , philosophy
The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is the gold standard to assess patients with acute stroke. We aimed to examine the feasibility and reliability of prehospital real-time cellular video phone (VP) in performing the NIHSS.
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