Uncooperative patients suspected of acute stroke ineligible for prehospital stroke screening test by emergency medical service providers: final hospital diagnoses and characteristics.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study investigated the hospital diagnoses and characteristics of uncooperative prehospital patients suspected of acute stroke who could not undergo a prehospital stroke screening test (PHSST).

Methods

This retrospective observational study was conducted at a single academic hospital with a regional stroke center. We analyzed three scenario-based prehospital stroke screening performances using the final hospital diagnoses: (1) a conservative approach only in patients who underwent the PHSST, (2) a real-world approach that considered all uncooperative patients as screening positive, and (3) a contrapositive approach that all uncooperative patients were considered as negative.

Results

Of the 2,836 emergency medical services (EMS)-transported adult patients

SUBMITTER: Han S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10350364 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature