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Table 1 Scenarios presented during interviews

From: Patients’ anticipated actions following transient ischaemic attack symptoms: a qualitative vignette-based study

Likely TIA scenarios (lasting 5 min)

 • Speech disturbance – expressive

 • Speech disturbance – receptive

 • Dense hemiplegia +/- dysphasia

 • Unilateral upper limb paresis

 • Ataxia and incoordination

 • Incoordination

 • Dressing apraxia

 • Other apraxia

 • Amaurosis fugax

 

Non-stroke scenarios

 • Acute coronary syndrome (crushing chest pain for 20 min)

 • Simple vaso-vagal faint

 • Classical migraine with fortification spectra

 • GI upset with diarrhoea and vomiting

 • Respiratory tract infection/possible pneumonia

 • Dysphagia without other neurological symptoms