Tag: comprehensive stroke centre
Stroke transfer protocols: what does the road ahead look like?
A number of somewhat conflicting studies have been published over the past year regarding triage and transport protocols for stroke. In light of the...
Elevating stroke care: Navigating the transition from primary to comprehensive centres
In a guest piece for NeuroNews, Thomas Devlin (Chattanooga, USA) and Michelle Luffey advise the community on how best to navigate the transition from...
Research indicates women are less likely to be routed to comprehensive...
Despite having worse stroke symptoms and living within comparable distances to comprehensive stroke centres (CSCs), women with large vessel occlusion (LVO) acute ischaemic stroke...
New certifications aim to standardise and improve stroke care in Mexico
Hospital institutions in Mexico will have access to a single, comprehensive set of stroke certification services through a new collaboration between the Mexican stroke...
New AHA statement should be seen as “call to action” in...
A new American Heart Association (AHA) scientific statement provides guidance on staffing, leadership and resource requirements for hospital stroke centres, with the intention of...
Hospitals without high-level designation more likely to miss strokes following TAVI...
A study conducted by Michigan Medicine (Ann Arbor, USA) researchers suggests that hospitals without the highest stroke care designation may be missing strokes that...
Challenging the status quo in stroke care
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Time is of the essence when treating a patient who has just experienced a stroke. Every minute counts, and...
Process times and regional variation are main areas of concern for...
Technical and clinical outcomes associated with mechanical thrombectomy treatments in England are currently “acceptable”, but ‘drip-and-ship’ patients, process times and variation between units all...
ISC 2022: New study finds better outcomes in patients treated at...
When comparing outcomes for acute ischaemic stroke patients treated at various levels of stroke centres, patients who received care at comprehensive stroke centres (CSC) or thrombectomy-capable...
Time is brain: Travelling stroke team enables faster treatment and better...
In a pilot programme in New York City, USA, a mobile interventional stroke team (MIST) travelled directly to patients to perform emergency stroke surgery...
Gender disparity in comprehensive stroke centre routing highlighted at SNIS
Women may be less likely than men to be sent to a comprehensive, or “Level 1”, stroke centre for emergent large vessel occlusion (ELVO)...
Brainomix launches AI stroke software across Poland under POLKARD initiative
Brainomix has deployed its flagship artificial intelligence (AI)-based e-Stroke software across the majority of the largest comprehensive stroke centres in Poland, allowing the company...
First patient enrolled in MindRhythm trial to assess LVO stroke diagnostic...
MindRhythm, a US medical technology company focused on preventing neurological injury in stroke, has announced the enrolment of the first patient in a multicentre...
Live from ISC: Study finds endovascular therapy access within 15 minutes...
Current direct endovascular therapy access for acute ischaemic stroke within 15 minutes is limited to one-fifth of the US population, concludes a recent...
John Muir Health awarded Comprehensive Stroke Certification Accreditation
John Muir Health’s Walnut Creek Medical Center, Walnut Creek, USA, has been awarded Comprehensive Stroke Certification Accreditation by The Joint Commission, which accredits and...
