Table 2.
Ischemic stroke patients management modalities
| Stroke Management characteristics | AVC69 2006–7 n = 696 |
STROKE69 2015–16 n = 717 |
p |
|---|---|---|---|
| Place of Stroke, n (%) | |||
| Home | 483 (81) | 505 (86) | |
| Family physician | 71 (12) | 20 (3) | |
| Highway | 36 (6) | 35 (6) | < 0.0001 |
| Healthcare center | 6 (1) | 22 (4) | |
| Other | 0 | 2 (0.3) | |
| Missing data | 100 (14) | 133 (19) | |
| Transportation type, n (%) | |||
| Ambulance | 224 (39) | 151 (24) | |
| Firefighters | 178 (31) | 373 (58) | |
| SMUR | 66 (12) | 27 (4) | < 0.0001 |
| Personal | 104 (18) | 85 (13) | |
| Other | 1 (0.2) | 2 (0.3) | |
| Missing data | 123 (18) | 79 (11) | |
| ECC call, n (%) | 215 (40) | 488 (68) | < 0.0001 |
| Missing data | 159 (23) | 0 | |
| Place of 1st admission, n (%) | |||
| emergency department | 615 (88) | 502 (70) | |
| stroke unit | 57 (8) | 214 (30) | < 0.0001 |
| ICU | 12 (2) | 1 (0.1) | |
| Other departments of neurology | 12 (2) | 0 (0) | |
| Missing data | 0 | 0 | |
| Hospitalization in stroke unit, n (%) | 118 (17) | 447 (62) | < 0.0001 |
| Missing data | 0 | 0 | |
| Imaging within 24 h, n (%) | |||
| CT alone | 460 (77) | 405 (57) | |
| MRI alone | 52 (9) | 221 (31) | < 0.0001 |
| CT and MRI | 51 (9) | 79 (11) | |
| None | 34 (6) | 3 (0.4) | |
| Missing data | 99 (14) | 9 (1) | |
| Treatment, n (%) | |||
| IVT alone | 60 (9) | 112 (16) | < 0.0001 |
| EVT | 0 | 55 (8) | |
| Any reperfusion therapy | 60 (9) | 167 (23) | < 0.0001 |
| Missing data | 0 | 0 | |
| 12-month prognosis, n (%) | |||
| mRS [0–2] | 251 (48) | 319 (61) | < 0.0001 |
| mRS [3–6] | 276 (52) | 202 (39) | |
| Missing data | 169 (24) | 196 (27) | |
CT Computed Tomography, ECC Emergency Call Center, EVT Endovascular Treatment, ICU Intensive Care Unit, IVT Intravenous Thrombolysis, MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging, mRS modified Rankin Scale; SMUR, Service Mobile d’Urgence et de Réanimation (system of highly medicalized transportation)