3. Purpose or Diseases of consultation
The common purpose of inviting urgent neurologic in-hospital
consultations are as following: diagnosis unknown (80%), assisted
treatment (14%) and dispute cases (6%) (Table 1). Other rare reasons
for applying for urgent consultation are shown in the Table 1.
Table 1.
The diseases in the urgent neurologic in-hospital consultation can be
divided into three categories: nervous system diseases, non-nervous
system diseases and unknown diseases. The frequently neurologic
consultation diseases are acute cerebrovascular disease,
epilepsy/epileptic status, metabolic, infectious toxic ischemic and
hypoxic encephalopathy, and intracranial infection, which account for
58.4% of the total urgent consultations. The older age, the more
frequently common applied for urgent consultation. Non-neurological
diseases accounted for 10.4% of the total urgent neurologic
consultations, among which disturbance of internal enveriment, poor
basic diseases and anxiety states were more common. Unknown diseases
accounted for 11.8%, which were due to many reasons including the
complicated diseases to be known and patients’ rejection to further test
for the patient.