Sensitivity of prehospital stroke scales for different intracranial large vessel occlusion locations.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Prehospital stroke scales have been proposed to identify stroke patients with a large vessel occlusion to allow direct transport to an intervention centre capable of endovascular treatment (EVT). It is unclear whether these scales are able to detect not only proximal, but also more distal treatable occlusions. Our aim was to assess the sensitivity of prehospital stroke scales for different EVT-eligible occlusion locations in the anterior circulation.

Patients and methods

The MR CLEAN Registry is a prospective, observational study in all centres that perform EVT in the Netherlands. We included adult patients with an anterior circulation stroke treated between March 2014 and November 2017. We used National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale scores at admission to r

SUBMITTER: Duvekot MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8370085 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature