Clinical/functional status

• A continuous decline in clinical or functional status means the patient’s prognosis is poor acute phase patients
• Comatose state lasting more than 3 days
• Comatose patients with any 4 of the following on day 3 of a stroke have 97% mortality by 2 months:
  • Abnormal brain stem response
  • Absent verbal response
  • No response to pain
  • Serum creatinine of more 1.5 mg/dl
  • Age 70 or more
  • Dysphagia severe enough to prevent them from receiving food or fluids