Peoria Posterior Fossa Stroke Scale: A New Scale to Assess the Severity of Posterior Fossa Stroke Symptoms and Outcomes.

Summary: Strokes that happen in the back of the brain can be very tricky to spot. The standard test that doctors use to check for strokes often misses the hidden signs of these specific brain attacks. To fix this problem, medical experts created a new, simple checklist called the Peoria Posterior Fossa Stroke Scale. It checks six important things like eye movement, hearing, and balance. This easy tool can be used right at the patient's bedside to help catch these hidden strokes much faster. Next, researchers will test it in real hospitals to prove it works well.