Table 2.
Questionnaire with results
| Questions | Responses | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For the treatment of wake-up stroke outside clinical trials, are you generally inclined to recommend a recanalization treatment? | a | Yes (68.52%) |
| b | No (31.48%) | ||
| 2 | In general, would you recommend intravenous thrombolysis (rTPA) for a patient presenting with a wake-up stroke? | a | Yes (51.85%) |
| b | No (48.15%) | ||
| 3 | In general, which revascularization treatment method would you recommend for a patient presenting with a wake-up stroke? | a | Intravenous thrombolysis-rTPA (5.56%) |
| b | Mechanical thrombectomy-stentriever (42.59%) | ||
| c | Intravenous rTPA and stentriever (38.89%) | ||
| d | No revascularization treatment (12.96%) | ||
| 4 | Suppose that you are inclined to recommend a revascularization treatment for a patient presenting with a wake-up stroke, outside a clinical trial. What brain imaging technique would you recommend at hospital admission? | a | Brain CT non-contrast-enhanced (5.66%) |
| b | Brain CT with perfusion and angio-CT (37.74%) | ||
| c | Brain CT with perfusion, angio-CT, magnetic resonance (5.66%) | ||
| d | Magnetic resonance (50.94%) | ||
| 5 | A 65-year-old male patient presenting with a wake-up stroke was admitted with complete aphasia. A computed tomography (CT) angiogram scan performed at admission showed that an M3 segment of the left middle cerebral artery was occluded, and the patient's ASPECTS score was 10. For this specific case, would you recommend a revascularization treatment? | a | Yes (64.81%) |
| b | No (35.19%) | ||
| 6 | If you recommended a revascularization treatment, which would be your preferred method of revascularization for the case described above? | a | Intravenous thrombolysis-rTPA (49.06%) |
| b | Intra-arterial thrombolysis-rTPA (7.55%) | ||
| c | Mechanical thrombectomy-stentriever (13.21%) | ||
| d | Intravenous rTPA and stentriever (1.89%) | ||
| e | No revascularization treatment (28.30%) | ||
| 7 | A 65-year-old male patient presenting with a wake-up stroke was admitted with complete right hemiplegia and aphasia (NIHSS score of 23). A CT angiogram scan performed at admission showed an occlusion of the M1 segment of the left middle cerebral artery and an ASPECTS score of 8. For this specific case, would you recommend a revascularization treatment? | a | Yes (83.33%) |
| b | No (16.67%) | ||
| 8 | If you recommended a revascularization treatment, which would be your preferred revascularization treatment method for the case described above? | c | Intravenous thrombolysis-rTPA (1.82%) |
| d | Mechanical thrombectomy-stentriever (52.73%) | ||
| e | Intravenous rTPA and stentriever (32.73%) | ||
| f | No revascularization treatment (12.73%) | ||