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Table 4 Outcomes

From: Emergency intubation during thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke in patients under primary procedural sedation

 

not intubated

emergently intubated

p-value

n

140

20

 

Occurrence of at least 20% drop in MAP, n (%)

65 (47.1)

17 (89.5)

0.001

Durations

 EVT procedure, mean ± SD, minutes

88.8 ± 55.0

128.8 ± 69.9

0.004

 Groin-to-reperfusion, mean ± SD, minutes

66.9 ± 55.9

107.8 ± 72.6

0.0038

 Stay in ICU, mean ± SD, hours

11.8 ± 46.93

69.3 ± 75.4

< 0.001

 Intubated state, mean, SD, hours

 

35.7 ± 72.2

 

 Intubated state, median, IQR, hours

 

8.3, 4.1–28.75

 

 Hospital stay, mean ± SD, hours

143.1 ± 96.7

159.2 ± 118.3

0.500

Successful reperfusion

 mTICI 2b-3, n (%)

124 (88.6)

14 (70.0)

0.0241

Clinical outcomes

 NIHSS at 24 h, mean ± SD

10.4 ± 9.4

19.9 ± 13.7

< 0.001

 ΔNIHSS (at 24 - on admission)

−3.2 ± 9.1

1.4 ± 11.9

0.047

mRS at 3 months, n (%) a

 0–2

51 (37.0)

2 (10.5)

0.022

  > 2

87 (63.0)

17 (89.5)

In-house mortality, n (%)

9 (6.4)

6 (30.0)

0.001

3 month mortality, n (%) a

32 (23.2)

7 (36.8)

0.197

Cause of death, n (% of patients died)

 Cerebral

16 (50.0)

6 (85.7)

0.169

 Non-cerebral

6 (18.8)

1 (14.3)

 Unclear

10 (31.2)

0 (0.0)

  1. a missing values of 2 patients of the not intubated group and 1 in the emergently intubated group. Student’s t-test was used for continuous variables and Chi-squared test for categorical variables. ICU intensive care unit, MAP mean arterial pressure, mRS modified Rankin Scale, NIHSS National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, mTICI modified thrombolysis in cerebral infarction