Access to Thrombolysis for Non-Resident and Resident Stroke Patients—A Registry-Based Comparative Study from Berlin

Frontiers in Neurology

Heinrich J. Audebert²  Martin Ebinger⁵  Guillaume Turc⁶  Ludwig Schlemm⁷ 

[1] Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany;Center for Stroke Research Berlin (CSB), Charité – Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany;Department of Neurology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany;Department of Neurology, Hôpital Sainte-Anne, Paris, France;Department of Neurology, MEDICAL PARK Berlin Humboldtmühle, Berlin, Germany;INSERM U894, Paris, France;London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom;

关键词: acute ischemic stroke;    cerebrovascular diseases;    epidemiology of stroke;    health services;    thrombolysis;    emergency medical services;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fneur.2017.00319

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

ObjectivesStroke can happen to people away from home. It is unknown whether non-resident and resident stroke patients have equal access to thrombolysis.Materials and methodsConsecutive patients cared for by the Stroke Emergency Mobile between 2011 and 2016 after prompting suspicion of acute stroke during the emergency call were included in our registry. Patients were categorized as residents or non-residents based on their main address. Clinical characteristics, thrombolysis rates, and time intervals from symptom onset/last seen well to alarm and to thrombolysis were compared between groups adjusting for age, pre-stroke modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score, and National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score.ResultsOf 4,254 patients for whom a stroke dispatch was activated, 2,451 had ischemic or hemorrhagic strokes, including 73 non-residents. Non-resident stroke patients were younger (median 69.4 vs. 76.6 years, p < 0.001), had less pre-stroke disability (mRS ≥ 2:17.8 vs. 47.5%, p < 0.001) and less severe strokes (median NIHSS 4 vs. 5, p = 0.02). Thrombolysis rates were higher in non-residents (30.9 vs. 22.0% of ischemic stroke patients, p = 0.04) and emergency calls were made faster (symptom onset/last-seen-well-to-alarm time 35 vs. 144 min, p = 0.04). A lower proportion of non-residents had unknown time of symptom onset (21.9 vs. 46.4%, p < 0.001). For patients with known time of symptom onset, thrombolysis rates, and prehospital delays were similar among non-residents and residents.ConclusionIn this study, non-resident stroke patients had higher rates of thrombolysis than residents. This may be explained by a lower proportion of patients with unknown time of symptom onset.

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