{"title":"疑似轻度脑卒中患者院前脑卒中量表的表现及诊断准确性","authors":"Helge Fagerheim Bugge, Mona Guterud, Karianne Larsen, Mathias Toft, Maren Ranhoff Hov, Else Charlotte Sandset","doi":"10.1177/23969873251360592","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Identifying patients with minor stroke is challenging in the prehospital setting due to subtle symptoms. The majority of studies evaluating prehospital stroke scales include patients with high median NIHSS at admission. ParaNASPP, a stepped-wedge cluster-randomized controlled trial found that prehospital NIHSS identified more patients with minor symptoms. Further knowledge on presenting symptoms of patients with suspected minor stroke, and the accuracy of prehospital stroke scales on minor stroke is needed.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A post-hoc analysis of data from the ParaNASPP trial describes prehospital presenting signs and symptoms of patients with suspected mild minor stroke. We defined mild minor stroke as NIHSS 0-2 at hospital admission. Furthermore, we reconstructed and evaluated nine prehospital stroke scales (NIHSS, FAST/CPSS, BE-FAST, LAPSS, MASS, MedPacs, PreHAST, and sNIHSS-EMS) in patients with mild minor stroke.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Four hundred and thirty-one patients in the ParaNASPP trial had NIHSS 0-2 at hospital admission. Of these, 152 (35%) were discharged from hospital with a stroke diagnosis. When examined by paramedics, stroke patients presented with speech disturbance, facial palsy, and motor weakness in arm or leg, while stroke mimics presented with dizziness, headache, and nausea/vomiting. NIHSS had the highest sensitivity (95%) and lowest specificity (16%), while LAPSS had the lowest sensitivity (42%) and highest specificity (80%) in the patients with suspected mild minor stroke. The remaining scales had sensitivity between 67% and 93%, and specificity between 23% and 67%.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In patients with mild minor stroke, substantial overlap in presentation between stroke and stroke mimics makes triage challenging. Prehospital stroke scales provide either high sensitivity or specificity. 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Presenting symptoms and diagnostic accuracy of prehospital stroke scales for patients with suspected mild minor stroke.
Introduction: Identifying patients with minor stroke is challenging in the prehospital setting due to subtle symptoms. The majority of studies evaluating prehospital stroke scales include patients with high median NIHSS at admission. ParaNASPP, a stepped-wedge cluster-randomized controlled trial found that prehospital NIHSS identified more patients with minor symptoms. Further knowledge on presenting symptoms of patients with suspected minor stroke, and the accuracy of prehospital stroke scales on minor stroke is needed.
Methods: A post-hoc analysis of data from the ParaNASPP trial describes prehospital presenting signs and symptoms of patients with suspected mild minor stroke. We defined mild minor stroke as NIHSS 0-2 at hospital admission. Furthermore, we reconstructed and evaluated nine prehospital stroke scales (NIHSS, FAST/CPSS, BE-FAST, LAPSS, MASS, MedPacs, PreHAST, and sNIHSS-EMS) in patients with mild minor stroke.
Results: Four hundred and thirty-one patients in the ParaNASPP trial had NIHSS 0-2 at hospital admission. Of these, 152 (35%) were discharged from hospital with a stroke diagnosis. When examined by paramedics, stroke patients presented with speech disturbance, facial palsy, and motor weakness in arm or leg, while stroke mimics presented with dizziness, headache, and nausea/vomiting. NIHSS had the highest sensitivity (95%) and lowest specificity (16%), while LAPSS had the lowest sensitivity (42%) and highest specificity (80%) in the patients with suspected mild minor stroke. The remaining scales had sensitivity between 67% and 93%, and specificity between 23% and 67%.
Conclusions: In patients with mild minor stroke, substantial overlap in presentation between stroke and stroke mimics makes triage challenging. Prehospital stroke scales provide either high sensitivity or specificity. Competence and training of paramedics in when and how to use, and interpret, these scales is key for recognizing and correctly triaging stroke patients.The ParaNASPP trial was registered at Clinicaltrials.gov with registration number NCT04137874.
期刊介绍:
Launched in 2016 the European Stroke Journal (ESJ) is the official journal of the European Stroke Organisation (ESO), a professional non-profit organization with over 1,400 individual members, and affiliations to numerous related national and international societies. ESJ covers clinical stroke research from all fields, including clinical trials, epidemiology, primary and secondary prevention, diagnosis, acute and post-acute management, guidelines, translation of experimental findings into clinical practice, rehabilitation, organisation of stroke care, and societal impact. It is open to authors from all relevant medical and health professions. Article types include review articles, original research, protocols, guidelines, editorials and letters to the Editor. Through ESJ, authors and researchers have gained a new platform for the rapid and professional publication of peer reviewed scientific material of the highest standards; publication in ESJ is highly competitive. The journal and its editorial team has developed excellent cooperation with sister organisations such as the World Stroke Organisation and the International Journal of Stroke, and the American Heart Organization/American Stroke Association and the journal Stroke. ESJ is fully peer-reviewed and is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Issues are published 4 times a year (March, June, September and December) and articles are published OnlineFirst prior to issue publication.