... comorbidities should be considered. Gender, age and cerebral hemisphere involved were not significantly associated with the presence of dysphagia. NIHSS, Glasgow Coma Scale, and speech and language changes had a statistically significant predictive value for the presence of dysphagia. Conclusions: The NIHSS...

... added in the first 6 h after the start of the infusion and the level of consciousness assessed using the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS). Twenty-four patients were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to either ZK 200775 or placebo. The ratio was changed to improve power to detect reduced conscious level between...

... modality (surgery or conservative) as variables. The data suggest that patients in a good neurological status on admission (Glasgow Coma Scale 13–15) with a small haematoma (<3 cm) should be treated conservatively. In all patients with large haematomas (>3 cm), including those in a good neurological...

...Kameshwar Prasad; Geetha R. Menon Presence of aphasia in patients with stroke poses a problem in the use of the full form (eye-motor-verbal) Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS). Stroke investigators and clinicians have used three different strategies to deal with the untestable verbal subscale, i.e...