LAMS HELP
This app is intended to help students learn the Los Angeles Motor Scale (LAMS).
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The Los Angeles Motor Scale is a simple and rapid way to identify severe strokes in the prehospital setting by assessing a patient's face, arms, and grip. The scoring criteria look like this:
| Facial Droop | |
|---|---|
| Absent | 0 |
| Present | 1 |
| Arm Drift | |
| Absent | 0 |
| Drifts Down | 1 |
| Falls Rapidly | 2 |
| Grip Strength | |
| Normal | 0 |
| Weak Grip | 1 |
| No Grip | 2 |
The higher the score is, the worse the patient is. A stroke patient with with a LAMS ≧ 4 is considered severe.
One way to remember that this is a "Scale" and not a "Score" is that "Scale" contains an "l" and "a," thus, the L.A. Motor Scale.
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