Stroke; Roadside to Resus
The Resus Room
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The Importance of Sensitivity in Stroke Screening Tools
There are lots of screening tools available and it does seem like everybody's had a bit of a go at designing one. So fast, I think is worth picking up on because that is the one that seems to be fairly universally used in the UK. And it's got a sensitivity across different studies of between 79 and 97%. So not too bad, but when we think about specificity, so can it tell us whether a patient's actually got a stroke that varies from 13 to 88%? So massive variation and really not that great. Certainly the lower end of the scale there. The Cochrane review appears to support the use of the fast test in the UK - which means you're more likely
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