Perception of challenges in management of neurological cases in the emergency room

Objective To investigate emergency clinicians’ comfort level in assessing neurological emergencies and to identify opportunities to foster enhanced training of clinical neurology in the emergency room. Design Internet‐based survey. Setting University teaching hospitals and private referral centers. Subjects One hundred and ninety‐two emergency and critical care specialists and resident trainees (ECC) and 104 neurology specialists and resident trainees (NEUR) in clinical practice. Interventions An internet‐based survey was distributed via veterinary professional organizations’ listserves and message boards and responses were collected between March and April 2020. ECC completed a survey evaluating stress levels associated with neurological emergencies, confidence with neurological examinations, and neuroanatomical localization. NEUR completed a similar survey to report their perception of their ECC colleagues’ confidence in the assessment of neurological cases. Chi‐square and Mann–Whitney U‐tests were used to compare categorical responses and confidence scores between groups. P