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When Time Is Critical: How Involving Frontline Health Workers Can Improve Stroke Survival Rates
By Carmen Graffagnino, Neurologist, Duke Hospital ; Nilima Mehta , Philanthropy program manager, Medtronic Foundation ; Anne Katharine Wales, Senior philanthropy portfolio lead, Medtronic FoundationApril 09, 2019Here are three ways to change a system of acute care.April 10 started as an ordinary day for Sarah. But while eating breakfast, her husband noticed that her face had started to droop and she was unable to find her words. Immediately he called 911.Within 10 minutes, the ambulance arrived with emergency medical services (EMS), a segment of the local health system that recently became partners in a new regional ...
Source: IntraHealth International - April 9, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: mnathe Tags: Noncommunicable Diseases Education & Performance Private-Sector Approaches SwitchPoint Health Workforce Systems USA Source Type: news

A Novel Atrial Fibrillation Evaluation Modelling Solution For NHS
Approximately every fifth stroke in UK is due to AF and costs the UK National Health Service are between $12,000 and $17,500 per stroke. The aim of this study was to undertake a retrospective health economic analysis of the cost-effectiveness and implications related to opportunistic Atrial Fibrillation (AF) screening in primary care and the detection of previously undiagnosed AF cases in patients, and create a novel modelling solution that can empower individual users and organisations in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in their decision making, technology assessment, comparison of various anticoagulation d rug group...
Source: Value in Health - October 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: G Xydopoulos, R Fordham, Z Khanbai Source Type: research

Study offers a new mindset in the search for stroke therapies
(University of New South Wales) UNSW researchers have identified a promising new avenue to explore in the search for stroke treatments, after translating findings from Alzheimer's disease.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - September 7, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news