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.