'Is he awake?': dialogues between callers and call handlers about consciousness during emergency calls for suspected acute stroke

Conclusion
Ambiguities and contradictions in dialogue about conscious level arise during ambulance calls for suspected and confirmed stroke. Further study is needed to identify whether these issues also arise in non-stroke calls, and which terms are best understood by the public in describing conscious level.

Source: Emergency Medicine Journal - April 12, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Gibson, J. M. E., Bullock, M., Ford, G. A., Jones, S. P., Leathley, M. J., McAdam, J. J., Quinn, T., Watkins, C. L., on behalf of the ESCORTT group Tags: Stroke Prehospital care Source Type: research