Abstract

The aim of the study is to evaluate the Sensitivity and Specificity of the individual clinical signs and their combinations used in the diagnosis of Acute Cerebrovascular Stroke. The controls included the relatives of the patients those who gave verbal consent to be included in the study, before including them as control, a brief history / workup was done to exclude any illness. Result: Arm Weakness to the above parallel combination increases the sensitivity to 98.56% while specificity remains 100%. Further addition of clinical signs increases the sensitivity very minimally. Conclusion: We also tried to calculate the sensitivity and specificity of combination of clinical signs. Parallel Combinations of the clinical signs is much more useful and efficient method than the series combination. When a parallel combination of 2 clinical signs viz. Facial Asymmetry and Hand Grip weakness is used to diagnose the Acute Stroke, then the combination has a sensitivity of 92.64% and specificity of 100%.

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