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Optimized acute stroke pathway using medical advanced regulation for stroke and repeated public awareness campaigns
Conclusion: Educational programs repeated each year are useful to the population for learning how to recognize stroke symptoms and send straight away an emergency call. Combining the emergency action with an early remote evaluation by the stroke center team and a direct admission in imaging department shortens the time-to-treatment delay. This model is reproducible in different health care systems.
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - November 18, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Valéry Soulleihet, François Nicoli, Jacques Trouve, Nadine Girard, Laurent Jacquin Tags: Original Contributions Source Type: research

Lung transplant of extrahospitalary donor after cardiac death
The objective of this study is to describe the results of lung transplantation of after cardiac death program, specifically the section regarding lung extraction donation. Twenty potential lung donors were obtained during the study. Most patients were male (19 cases), with a mean age of 42 years (36.5-49.5 years). A total of 33 lungs were donated (18 right and 15 left lungs). Most extractions were multiorganic (19 cases). One liver, 19 kidneys, 2 pancreas, and 19 corneas were obtained from these donors; bone tissue was obtained from all donors. The transplantation was bipulmonary in 13 cases and unipulmonary in 7. Thirty d...
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - March 5, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Alonso A. Mateos Rodríguez, José Maria Navalpotro Pascual, Francisco del Río Gallegos Tags: Brief Reports Source Type: research