Version July 2025
| Item | FAST-ED score | NIHSS score source |
| Facial palsy | ||
| Normal or minor paralysis | 0 | 0 to 1 |
| Partial or complete paralysis | 1 | 2 to 3 |
| Arm weakness | ||
| No drift | 0 | 0 |
| Drift or some effort against gravity | 1 | 1 to 2 |
| No effort against gravity or no movement | 2 | 3 to 4 |
| Speech changes | ||
| Absent | 0 | 0 |
| Mild to moderate | 1 | 1 |
| Severe, global aphasia, or mute | 2 | 2 to 3 |
| Eye deviation | ||
| Absent | 0 | 0 |
| Partial | 1 | 1 |
| Forced deviation | 2 | 2 |
| Denial/neglect | ||
| Absent | 0 | 0 |
| Extinction to bilateral simultaneous stimulation in only 1 sensory modality | 1 | 1 |
| Does not recognize own hand or orients only to one side of the body | 2 | 2 |
