Template:Stroke workup
Stroke Work-Up
- Head CT (non-contrast)
- Sensitivity 42%, Specificity 91%[1]
- Labs
- POC glucose
- CBC
- Chemistry
- Coags
- Troponin
- T&S
- ECG
- Also consider:
- Pregnancy test
- CXR (if infection suspected)
- UA (if infection suspected)
- Utox (if ingestion suspected)
- MRI/MRA
- ↑ Mullins ME, Schaefer PW, Sorensen AG, Halpern EF, Ay H, He J, Koroshetz WJ, Gonzalez RG. CT and conventional and diffusion-weighted MR imaging in acute stroke: study in 691 patients at presentation to the emergency department. Radiology. 2002 Aug;224(2):353-60.