From: Effect of prehospital notification on acute stroke care: a multicenter study
Reasons | Prenotification (n = 539) | No prenotification (n = 146) | Total (n = 685) |
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Hemorrhagic stroke or hemorrhagic transformation | 250 (46.4Â %) | 66 (45.2Â %) | 316 (46.1Â %) |
Older than 80Â years of age | 117 (21.7Â %) | 40 (27.4Â %) | 157 (22.9Â %) |
Rapid recovery or minor symptoms | 70 (13.0Â %) | 19 (13.0Â %) | 89 (13.0Â %) |
Very severe symptoms/signs | 28 (5.2Â %) | 9 (6.2Â %) | 37 (5.4Â %) |
Stroke or serious head injury within 3Â months | 11 (2.0Â %) | 2 (1.4Â %) | 13 (1.9Â %) |
Prior stroke accompanied with diabetes mellitus history | 7 (1.3Â %) | 3 (2.1Â %) | 10 (1.5Â %) |
Seizure during stroke onset | 8 (1.5Â %) | 2 (1.4Â %) | 10 (1.5Â %) |
Patient or family refused therapy | 9 (1.7Â %) | 1 (0.7Â %) | 10 (1.5Â %) |
Uncontrolled hypertension | 8 (1.5Â %) | 0 (0Â %) | 8 (1.2Â %) |
International normalized ratio >1.7 | 4 (0.7Â %) | 3 (2.1Â %) | 7 (1.0Â %) |
Known vascular malformation, aneurysm, or brain tumor | 7 (1.3Â %) | 0 (0Â %) | 7 (1.0Â %) |
More than 4.5Â hours before thrombolytic therapy given | 6 (1.1Â %) | 0 (0Â %) | 6 (0.9Â %) |
Other | 14 (2.6Â %) | 1 (0.7Â %) | 15 (2.2Â %) |