TY - JOUR T1 - Association between anesthesia modality and clinical outcomes following endovascular stroke treatment in the extended time window JF - Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery JO - J NeuroIntervent Surg SP - 478 LP - 482 DO - 10.1136/neurintsurg-2022-018846 VL - 15 IS - 5 AU - Permesh Singh Dhillon AU - Waleed Butt AU - Anna Podlasek AU - Norman McConachie AU - Robert Lenthall AU - Sujit Nair AU - Luqman Malik AU - David W Hewson AU - Pervinder Bhogal AU - Hegoda Levansri Dilrukshan Makalanda AU - Martin A James AU - Robert A Dineen AU - Timothy J England Y1 - 2023/05/01 UR - http://jnis.bmj.com/content/15/5/478.abstract N2 - Background There is a paucity of data on anesthesia-related outcomes for endovascular treatment (EVT) in the extended window (>6 hours from ischemic stroke onset). We compared functional and safety outcomes between local anesthesia (LA) without sedation, conscious sedation (CS) and general anesthesia (GA).Methods Patients who underwent EVT in the early (<6 hours) and extended time windows using LA, CS, or GA between October 2015 and March 2020 were included from a UK national stroke registry. Multivariable analyses were performed, adjusted for age, sex, baseline stroke severity, pre-stroke disability, EVT technique, center, procedural time and IV thrombolysis.Results A total of 4337 patients were included, 3193 in the early window (1135 LA, 446 CS, 1612 GA) and 1144 in the extended window (357 LA, 134 CS, 653 GA). Compared with GA, patients treated under LA alone had increased odds of an improved modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score at discharge (early: adjusted common (ac) OR=1.50, 95% CI 1.29 to 1.74, p=0.001; extended: acOR=1.29, 95% CI 1.01 to 1.66, p=0.043). Similar mRS scores at discharge were found in the LA and CS cohorts in the early and extended windows (p=0.21). Compared with CS, use of GA was associated with a worse mRS score at discharge in the early window (acOR=0.73, 95% CI 0.45 to 0.96, p=0.017) but not in the extended window (p=0.55). There were no significant differences in the rates of symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage or in-hospital mortality across the anesthesia modalities in the extended window.Conclusion LA without sedation during EVT was associated with improved functional outcomes compared with GA, but not CS, within and beyond 6 hours from stroke onset. Prospective studies assessing anesthesia-related outcomes in the extended time window are warranted.Data may be obtained from a third party and are not publicly available. Data access requests should be directed to SSNAP as the data provider and HQIP as the data controller. ER -