The Usefulness of the Kurashiki Prehospital Stroke Scale in Identifying Thrombolytic Candidates in Acute Ischemic Stroke

Patients with acute ischemic stroke should be rapidly triaged to a stroke center with the highest quality of stroke care to assess the severity of a stroke within an appropriate time. However, the important information about the severity of a stroke cannot be provided by widely used prehospital stroke scales. The Kurashiki prehospital stroke scale (KPSS) was constructed using four metrics, including level of consciousness, disturbance of consciousness, motor weakness, and language, with total scores ranging from 0 to 13. The maximum of 13 points represented the most severe symptoms. The KPSS was developed in 2008 to assess the severity of stroke. We investigated the usefulness of KPSS for assessing the severity of stroke compared to the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) in patients who are candidates for intravenous or intraarterial thrombolysis who arrived at the hospital within 6 h of symptom onset.
Source: The Journal of Emergency Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Source Type: research