Table 1.

Patient characteristics

	Total		General anesthesia		Conscious sedation
	N=1,174		N=441		N=733
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Age	67.3	15.0	66.5	15.2	67.6	14.9
	N	%	N	%	N	%
Female Gender	615	52.4%	219	49.7%	394	53.8%
Race
Caucasian	782	66.6%	309	70.1%	522	71.2%
African-American	149	12.7%	57	12.9%	83	11.3%
Hispanic	143	12.2%	40	9.0%	73	10.0%
Asian	67	5.7%	21	4.8%	38	5.2%
Others	33	2.8%	14	3.2%	17	2.3%
Insurance
Medicare	633	53.9%	233	52.8%	400	55.3%
Private insurance	419	35.7%	156	35.4%	263	34.9%
Medicaid	76	6.5%	31	7.0%	45	6.3%
Uninsured	26	2.2%	15	3.4%	11	1.6%
Others	20	1.7%	⦸	⦸	⦸	⦸
IV-tPA	613	52.2%	219	49.7%	394	53.8%
Comorbidities
Diabetes	289	24.6%	105	23.8%	183	25.0%
Smoking	151	12.9%	40	9.1%	104	14.2%
Obesity	97	8.3%	9	8.8%	59	8.0%
Transient ischemic attack	⦸	⦸	⦸	⦸	⦸	⦸
Coronary artery disease	322	27.4%	125	28.3%	206	28.1%
Congestive Heart Failure	313	26.7%	113	25.6%	199	27.1%
Chronic Lung Disease	151	12.9%	62	14.1%	97	13.2%
Coagulopathy	48	4.1%	23	5.2%	27	3.7%
Chronic Renal Failure	114	9.7%	37	8.4%	78	10.6%
Hypertension	791	67.4%	297	67.3%	497	67.8%
Hypercholesterolemia	475	40.5%	152	34.5%	335	45.7%
Alcohol	38	3.2%	⦸	⦸	⦸	⦸
Peripheral Vascular Disease	104	8.9%	32	7.3%	73	10.0%

SD: Standard Deviation; IV t-PA: intravenous tissue plasminogen activator

⦸ Output suppressed to respect the SPARCS reporting limit of 11 patients