ACDD4 score: A simple tool for assessing risk of pneumonia after stroke

Pneumonia is a serious but a preventable stroke complication. Prediction scales for post-stroke pneumonia have been proposed with an intent to improve surveillance and prevention but they remain under-utilized in clinical practice. Most existing scales were developed using both ventilated and non-ventilated patients which may affect their accuracy. We derived and validated a novel, pragmatic scale to predict hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) after stroke employing only a non-ventilated stroke cohort.

Source: Journal of the Neurological Sciences - October 31, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Sandeep Kumar, Sarah Marchina, Joseph Massaro, Wayne Feng, Sourabh Lahoti, Magdy Selim, Shoshana J. Herzig Source Type: research