A 47-year-old patient, who suffered an acute ischemic stroke, was transferred, on Saturday, by a SMURD helicopter, from the Cluj County Emergency Hospital to the Suceava County Emergency Clinical Hospital (SCJU), according to Agerpres.
The man needed surgery to remove the blood clot from the affected cerebral vessel.
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According to StirideCluj, the man was refused surgery by five clinics.
The patient arrived in Suceava, either because of the lack of doctors on call on Easter Saturday, or because of the lack of kits used to extract the clots.
The case represents a first for SCJU Suceava, which took over a patient from a university center.
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“The patient’s symptoms started at 11:30 a.m. Thrombolysis (administration of drugs that dissolve the blood clot) was performed at 2:00 p.m. at the hospital in Cluj.
Because there was no significant improvement in the symptoms, it was decided to transfer the patient to the Suceava County Clinical Hospital for the extraction of the blood clot from the level of the affected cerebral vessel by the Interventional Radiology team. It is the first request of this kind received from a university center”, the representatives of SCJU Suceava sent.
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