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NIHSS National Institute of Health Stroke Scale Yvonne Skewis, RN, BSN, SCRN

Purpose Standardize neurological exams in acute care stroke patients High reliability and validity 15 components, score ranging from 0-42 Higher numbers= poor neurological outcome Formal training/certification to ensure reliability NIHSS evidence based standard for detecting changes, determining severity, and measuring neurological functioning overtime. Stroke score is correlated with infarct volume. A high score is associated large infarct volume. Can be helpful in predicting hospital discharge status. 5 or less more often are discharged home. 7-13 inpatient rehab/skilled nursing. 14 or higher generally require long term acute care facility or nursing home . A change in the score of NIHSS of 2-4 points can indicate a clinically relevant change in neurological status.

1a. Level of Consciousness 0=Alert; keenly responsive 1= Not alert; but arousable by minor stimulation to obey, answer, or respond. 2= Not Alert; requires repeated stimulation to attend, or is obtunded and requires strong or painful stimulation to make movements (not stereotyped). 3= Responds only with reflex motor or autonomic effects or totally unresponsive, flaccid, and areflexic Must choose a response even if the full evaluation is prevented by obstacles such as an ET tube, language barrier, orotracheal trauma or bandages. You should only choose a 3 if a patient makes no movement ( other than reflexive posturing) in response to noxious stimulation.

1b. LOC Questions 0= Answers both questions correctly 1= Answers one question correctly 2= Answers neither question correctly Ask the patient the month and his/her age. The answer must be correct and they can not be given credit for being close. Aphasic and stuporous patient who do not comprehend the question will be given a score of 2. If patients are unable to speak for any other reason than being aphasic such as ET tube, orotracheal trauma, severe dysarthria from any cause, language barrier are given a 1. It is very important that the examiner does not help the patient with verbal or nonverbal cues and that only the initial answer be scored.

1c. LOC commands 0= Performs both tasks correctly 1= Performs one task correctly 2= Performs neither task correctly Ask to patient to open and close their eyes then to grip and release (make a fist then open) their non-paretic hand. If for some reason their hand can not be used you can substitute another one step command. If they make a clear attempt at the command but cannot complete due to weakness credit should be given. If the patient does not respond to the command, the task should then be demonstrated to them. Also if the patient has trauma, amputation, or other physical impediments, should be given suitable one step commands. Only the first attempt is scored

2. Best Gaze 0= Normal 1= Partial gaze palsy; gaze is abnormal in one or both eyes, but forced deviation or total gaze paresis is not present 2= Forced deviation, or total gaze paresis not overcome by the oculocephalic maneuver (doll’s eye maneuver) Only test horizontal eye movements. Voluntary or reflexive eye movements are scored. If patients have a conjugate deviation of the eyes that can be overcome by voluntary or reflexive activity, the score will be 1. If the patient has an isolated peripheral nerve paresis ( Cranial nerve III, IV, or VI) score 1. Gaze is testable in all aphasic pts, if they are not able to follow the command. Move around the room to see patient can track you. If the patient has ocular trauma, bandages, pre-existing blindness, or other disorders of visual acuity or fields should be tested with reflexive movements, and a choice made by the individual preforming the exam.

Visual 0= No visual loss 1= Partial hemianopia (blind upper OR lower field one side) 2= Complete hemianopia (blind upper AND lower field one side) 3= Bilateral hemianopia (blind including cortical blindness) The upper and lower quadrants of the visual fields are tested by confrontations, using finger counting or visual threat, as appropriate. Patients may be encouraged, but if they look at the side of the moving fingers appropriately, this can be scored as normal. If there is unilateral blindness or enucleation, then he visual fields in the remaining eye is tested. Score 1 only if there is clear cut asymmetry , including quadrantanopia, is found. If the patient is blind from any cause, score 3. Double simultaneous stimulation is preformed at this point. If there is extinction, patient receives a 1, and the results are also used to respond to item 11.

Facial Palsy 0= Normal symmetrical movements 1= Minor paralysis (flattened nasolabia fold, asymmetry on smiling 2= Partial paralysis (total or near-total paralysis of lower face 3= Complete paralysis of one or both sides (absence of facial movement in upper and lower face). Ask or pantomime patient to “show teeth”, raise eyebrows, close eyes. If patient is poorly responsive or not understanding you should score symmetry of grimace from noxious stimuli. If facial trauma, bandages, orotracheal tube, tape or other physical barriers obscure the face, they should be removed only to the extent possible.

5. Motor Arm 0= No drift; limb holds 90 (or 45) degrees for full 10 seconds. 1= Drift; limb holds 90 (or 45) degrees, but drifts down before full 10 seconds, does not hit bed or other support. 2= Some effort against gravity; limb cannot get to or maintain 90 (or 45) degrees, drifts down to bed, but has some effort against gravity. 3= No effort against gravity. 4= No movement. UN= Amputation or joint fusion. The limb is placed in the appropriate position: extend the arms with the palms facing down 90 degrees if sitting or 45 degrees is supine. If the arm starts to fall before the 10 seconds then a drift is scored. An aphasic patient is encouraged using urgency in your voice and again by pantomime, but not by noxious stimulation. Each limb is tested in turn beginning with the NONparetic arm. Only in the case of amputation or joint fusion at the shoulder the examiner should record the score untestable and the should write a clear explanation for the choice.

6. Motor Leg 0= No drift; leg holds 30-degree position for full 5 seconds. 1= Drift; leg falls by the end of the 5-second period but does not hit the bed. 2= Some effort against gravity; leg falls to bed by 5-seconds, but has some effort against gravity. 3= No effort against gravity; leg falls to bed immediately. 4= No movement. UN= Amputation or joint fusion. The limb is placed in the appropriate position: hold the leg at 30 degrees, always test supine. If the leg starts to fall before the 5 seconds then a drift is scored. An aphasic patient is encouraged using urgency in your voice and again by pantomime, but not by noxious stimulation. Each limb is tested in turn beginning with the NON paretic leg. Only in the case of amputation or joint fusion at the hip the examiner should record the score untestable and the should write a clear explanation for the choice.

7.Limb Ataxia 0= Absent. 1= Present in one limb. 2= Present in two limbs. UN= Amputation or joint fusion. This item is to find evidence of unilateral cerebellar lesion. Test with eyes open. If there is visual neglect, testing should be done in the intact visual fields. Finger to nose and heel to shin test should be performed on both sides. Only score ataxia if it is present out of proportion to weakness. Ataxia is absent in a patient who cannot understand or is paralyzed. You should only score untestable in the case of amputation or joint fusion. If the patient is blind, have them touch their nose from extended arm position.

8. Sensory 0= Normal; no sensory loss. 1= Mild-to-moderate sensory loss; patient feels pinprick is less sharp or is dull on the affected side; or there is a loss of superficial pain with pinprick, but patient is aware of being touched. 2= Severe to total sensory loss; patient is not aware of being touched in the face, arm, and leg. Sensation or grimace to pinprick when tested, or withdraw from noxious stimuli in the obtunded or aphasic patient. Only sensory loss attributed to a stroke is tested as abnormal. You should test as many body areas as needed (arms, legs, trunk, face) to accurately check for hemisensory loss. A score of 2 should only be given when a severe or total loss of sensation can be clearly demonstrated. Therefore stuporous and aphasic patients will more likely score a 1 or 0. A patient with a brainstem stroke who has bilateral loss of sensation is scored a 2. Comatose patients are automatically given a 2.

9. Best Language 0= No aphasia 1= Mild-to-moderate aphasia; some obvious loss of fluency or facility of comprehension, without significant limitation of ideas expressed or form of expression. Reduction of speech and /or comprehension, however, makes conversation about provided materials difficult or impossible. 2= Severe aphasia; all communication is through fragmentary expression; great need for interference, questioning and guessing by the listener. Range of information that can be exchanged is limited; listener carries burden of communication. 3= Mute or global aphasia; no usable speech or auditory comprehension. You can get a great bit of information about comprehension during all the previous sections of the examination. For this scale the patient is asked to describe what is happening in the picture, name the items on the attached naming sheet and to read from the list of sentences. Comprehension is judged from their responses here, as well as to all the command given in the preceding items. Intubated patients should be asked to write or point to items. If visual loss interfers with this part of the test, ask patient to identify objects placed in their hand, repeat, and produce speech. Comatose patients while automatically score a 3.

10. Dysarthria 0= Normal 1= Mild-to-moderate dysarthria; patient slurs at least some words and, at worst, can be understood with some difficulty. 2= Severe dysarthria; patient’s speech is so slurred as to be unintelligible in the absence of or out of proportion to any dysphasia, or is mute/anarthric. UN= Intubated or other physical barrier. If the patient is thought to be normal, an adequate sample of speech is obtained by asking patient to read or repeat words from the attached list . If patient has severe aphasia, you can test of the clarity of the spontaneous speech. Only score untestable if the patient is intubated or has other physical barriers to producing speech. Also do not tell the patient that you are testing them for slurring of their speech.

15. Extinction and Inattention (formerly neglect) 0= No abnormality. 1= Visual, tactile, auditory, spatial, or personal inattention or extinction to bilateral simultaneous stimulation in one of the sensory modalities. 2= Profound hemi-inattention or extinction to more than one modality; does not recognize own hand or orients to only one side of space. This is another item to where sufficient information can be obtained during the prior testing. If the patient has severe visual loss preventing double visual simultaneous stimulation , and the cutaneous stimuli are normal, then the score is normal. If the patient is aphasic but does appear to attend to both sides, the score is normal. The presence of visual spatial neglect or denial of disability can also be taken as evidence of abnormality.

Refernces Livesay, S. (Ed.). (2014). Comprehensive review for stroke nursing. Chicago, IL: American Association of Neuroscience Nurses National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. (2013). NIH stroke scale training. Retrieved from http://www.ninds.nih.gov/doctors/NIH_Stroke_Scale.pdf