Symptoms presented during emergency telephone calls for patients with spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) is one of the most critical neurological emergencies a dispatcher can face in an emergency telephone call. No study has yet investigated which symptoms are presented in emergency telephone calls for these patients. We aimed to identify symptoms indicative of SAH and to determine the sensitivity of these and their association (odds ratio, OR) with SAH.

Methods

This was a nested case-control study based on all telephone calls to the medical dispatch center of Copenhagen Emergency Medical Services in a 4-year time period. Patients with SAH were identified in the Danish National Patient Register; diagnoses were verified by medical record review and their emergency telephone call audio files were extracted. Audio files were

SUBMITTER: Sonne A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8365904 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature