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New emergency brain procedure saving stroke patients
A highly specialized blood clot removal technique is now being offered at 22 hospitals across Canada to patients who are in the midst of having a stroke. Advocates of the procedure known as a "thrombectomy" say it's the first advance in stroke treatment in 20 years.
Source: CBC | Health - December 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news

Stroke victim, 27, determined to get back on her feet — with husband's help
Carly White woke up in a hospital with a piece of her brain removed and no recollection of how she got there. Now, she is warning others to not ignore symptoms of what could be a stroke.
Source: CBC | Health - August 16, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/NL Source Type: news

How having a stroke saved this woman's life
When a 60-year-old Montreal woman showed up in a hospital emergency department three years ago unable to control the left side of her face, she was treated for a stroke. It took a second ER visit and multiple tests before doctors realized that what had been causing her symptoms was, in fact, a rare form of ovarian cancer that doctors have dubbed "the empress of subterfuge."
Source: CBC | Health - March 25, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news

Study of U.S. hospital figures links pot use with increased risk of stroke
New research is being presented at a conference in Montreal today linking recreational cannabis use with an increased risk of stroke.
Source: CBC | Health - October 19, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news

After a stroke at 27, he's ready to get out of hospital. Amid a housing crunch, he can't leave
Patrick Kunkel suffered a stroke at the age of 27 and has been living in health care facilities for eight months straight. Finally, he's well enough to continue recovering at home, but his family is now facing another unexpected challenge: finding an accessible place to live in a city that's facing a major housing crunch.
Source: CBC | Health - February 24, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Toronto Source Type: news

B.C. woman who suffered stroke waited over an hour for an ambulance. Now she's partially paralyzed
The family of a woman who was left paralyzed after suffering a stroke is asking for answers as to why she waited more than an hour for an ambulance to take her to the hospital.
Source: CBC | Health - September 12, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/British Columbia Source Type: news

Alberta tourist alarmed by ambulance response time in B.C.
Two women from High Prairie, Alta were travelling B.C.'s Alaska Highway when one of them had a stroke. What followed, they say, was nearly 24 hours of frustration and fear trying to get the patient from one hospital to another.
Source: CBC | Health - August 30, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/British Columbia Source Type: news

Investigation launched after B.C. father visits hospital 4 times before stroke diagnosis
Northern Health, which runs hospitals in northwest, B.C., is looking into why it took four hospital visits over four days for doctors to confirm that a Hazelton, B.C., man had suffered at least two strokes.
Source: CBC | Health - August 15, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/British Columbia Source Type: news

U of C research calls for urgent MRIs for patients considered low risk for stroke
A new study, led by doctors at the University of Calgary,  shows urgent MRI scans are key in diagnosing patients considered low risk for minor strokes and the findings are changing how Calgary hospitals deal with those patients.
Source: CBC | Health - September 24, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Calgary Source Type: news

New remote robotic brain surgery could revolutionize aneurysm, stroke treatment
Surgeons at a Toronto hospital have performed the world’s first neurovascular surgery using robotics, a procedure that could open the door to heightened levels of precision and improved care for patients in remote communities.
Source: CBC | Health - November 6, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Toronto Source Type: news

Baby diagnosed with a sprain had actually suffered a stroke
An Ontario mother says she had to take her baby to three different hospitals, and speak with six doctors in less than a week, to get an accurate diagnosis after he was injured in a fall. Has the strain of the pandemic made it more likely for doctors to make mistakes?
Source: CBC | Health - November 22, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Business Source Type: news

Severely injured patients waited hours in HSC emergency entrance hallway due to absence of beds inside
Twelve people on stretchers, including a stroke patient with a bleeding brain and a trauma patient transported by helicopter, were lined up in the entrance hallway at Manitoba's largest emergency department on Sunday evening because no beds were available inside, a physician at the hospital said.
Source: CBC | Health - September 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Manitoba Source Type: news