A pilot project to airlift patients to a stroke centre for time-critical treatment has been launched.
Since February this year, five patients have been airlifted from the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford by the Midlands Air Ambulance Charity to the hyper acute stroke centre at Royal Stoke University Hospital for a thrombectomy.
A mechanical thrombectomy is the radiological removal of a blood clot from the affected large blood vessel of the brain of acute stroke patients. Hayley Flavell, director of nursing at SaTH, said: “The number of patients being transferred may seem small, but this collaboration with our partners is making such a difference.
Dr Meena Srinivasan, clinical director of stroke services at SaTH, said: “Time is of the essence with a thrombectomy and with these cases being transferred by air ambulance the patients are getting there more quickly than they would have done.”
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