A new treatment to prevent damage from a severe stroke, is in Dordrecht, currently only available to people who get that life-threatening stroke and in office.
The Albert Schweitzer Hospital has been busy training with the new method by which an occluded vessel in the brain is made open again with a catheter. That can prevent permanent disability.
The treatment is only from 2017 reimbursed by health insurers, but several teaching hospitals and regional hospitals are already ahead and pay for the treatment out of pocket. ,, In the interest of patients, '' said spokesman Frank van den Elsen from the Albert Schweitzer Hospital. Follow him to the Dordrecht hospital treatment offer this year only on weekdays. People arriving on Saturday or Sunday, or on weekdays after 17:00 have a serious infarction, miss the boat. They should at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam. Where do all 24 hours, any day. They lose or one hour travel time.
Practice
We have no choice, says Van den Elsen. ,, It is necessary to train enough people in practice, both doctors and nurses and support staff. But also to develop good logistics in cooperation with other departments. Of course we have all studied this at Erasmus MC, but you can learn it only in practice. We would rate this as a headless chicken 24 hours a day, seven days a week to do, then make sure things go wrong. It is not an ethical consideration, but a practical one. ''
International research shows that patients according to him anyway at the weekend in a weaker position. Specialists are then released and are replaced by medical interns.
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