• Eur J Emerg Med · Apr 2014

    Characteristics of patients with acute ischemic stroke intubated before imaging.

    • Jonathan A Edlow, Marie-France Petchy, and Laetitia Moulie.
    • aDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA bDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France.
    • Eur J Emerg Med. 2014 Apr 1;21(2):145-7.

    AbstractThere are no prospective data on which ischemic stroke patients require endotracheal intubation. This retrospective observational study describes the characteristics and outcomes of adult ischemic stroke patients admitted to two emergency department (ED)-ICU from January 2005 to October 2011 and who were intubated before imaging, either during the prehospital or the ED phase of care. Data were extracted from hospital charts and analyzed using descriptive statistics. During the study period, 57 of 6492 ED patients (<1%) with ischemic stroke were intubated. Of these, 31 were intubated before imaging. The median age of the study group patients was 78 years (IQR, 71-81) and 20 (64%) were men. Twenty-eight (90%) patients had a Glasgow Coma Score of 8 or less at the time of intubation. Twenty-six patients (84%) died during their hospital stay. The proportion of ED ischemic stroke patients intubated before imaging was very low. Almost all were severely ill and the majority died.

      Pubmed     Full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…

What will the 'Medical Journal of You' look like?

Start your free 21 day trial now.

We guarantee your privacy. Your email address will not be shared.