NIH Stroke Scale Group B Patient 1-6 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS 2024/2025

NIH Stroke Scale Group B Patient 1-6
100% VERIFIED ANSWERS 2024/2025

Test language/aphasia (Describe the scene, name words, read the sentences) ✅answer✅
0 - Normal; no aphasia

1 - Mild-moderate aphasia: some obvious changes without significant limitation

2 - Severe aphasia: fragmentary expression, interference needed, cannot identify materials

3 - Mute/global aphasia: no usable speech/auditory comprehension

3 - Coma, unresponsive



Test dysarthria (read words: Mama, Tip-top, Fifty-fifty, Thanks, Huckleberry, Baseball player)
✅answer✅ 0 - Normal; no dysarthria

1 - Mild-moderate dysarthria: slurring but can be understood

2 - Severe dysarthria: unintelligible slurring or out of proportion to dysphasia

2 - Mute/anarthric

0 - Intubated/unable to test



- Test extinction/inattention ✅answer✅ 0 - No abnormality

1 - Visual/tactile/auditory/spatial/personal inattention

1 - Extinction to bilateral simultaneous stimulation

2 - Profound hemi-inattention (does not recognize own hand)

2 - Extinction to > 1 modality



What NIHSS measures ✅answer✅ measures severity of symptoms of stroke

, NIHSS areas of assessment ✅answer✅ Level of consciousness

Vision

Extraoccular movements

Facial Palsy

Limb strength

Ataxia

Sensation

Speech and language



Grading scale of NIHSS ✅answer✅ 3 or 4 point scale

Scores range from 0-42



Score of >25 ✅answer✅ Very severe stroke on NIHSS scale



Score of 15-24 ✅answer✅ Severe stroke on NIHSS scale



Score of 5-14 ✅answer✅ Mild to Moderately Severe stroke on NIHSS scale



Score of 1-5 ✅answer✅ Mild stroke on NIHSS scale



Patient 1 ✅answer✅ 1a- 0

1b- 1

1c- 0

2- 0

3- 0