CHW's Chandler Regional Medical Center has launched a new program for the care of stroke victims. Stroke symptoms include the abrupt onset of slurred speech or other difficulty talking, difficulty with balance, inability to lift an arm or a leg or loss of sensation in an arm or a leg. In a stroke, a small clot appears in a blood vessel, preventing blood flow to that part of the brain.
With the implementation of this new program, a patient who arrives at Chandler Regional with stroke symptoms will be seen by an ER physician within 10 minutes. A CT scan will be read within 25 minutes, and, if doctors decide clot-buster drugs are needed, the patient will get them within an hour.
Read more at the Arizona Republic.
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