Stroke Center

赌博正规软件下载的中风中心准备一天24小时处理任何与中风有关的紧急情况, seven days a week. Our stroke team:

  • Is notified by EMS crews if a potential stroke patient is en route
  • Evaluates patients within 10 minutes of arrival
  • Performs critical imaging scans within 25 minutes of the order, with results analyzed within 20 minutes
  • Identifies treatment options and begins treatment within 1 hour of arrival

Time Lost is Brain Lost

Stroke patients who are treated within 4.在中风症状开始的5小时内,至少有30%的可能性恢复,几乎没有残疾. 中风中心的团队就能越早治疗潜在的中风患者, the better the chances for recovery. 这就是为什么在国家认可的中风中心接受治疗是很重要的.

Warning Signs of Stroke

Call 9–1–1 immediately if you experience these symptoms:

  • 面部、手臂或腿的突然麻木或无力,尤指身体的一侧
  • Sudden confusion or understanding
  • Sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes
  • Sudden trouble speaking
  • Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, or loss of balance/coordination
  • Sudden headache with no known cause

Diagnosis

We use several technologies to diagnose stroke, including:

  • Ambulatory/Video Electroencephalography. 动态/视频脑电图有助于诊断各种神经系统疾病, from common headaches and dizziness to seizure disorders, strokes and degenerative brain disease.
  • Angiography. This X-ray procedure photographs the blood vessels using a catheter tube. 导管插入腹股沟的动脉或静脉,引导到观察区域. Once the catheter has reached the appropriate area, X-ray dye is injected through the catheter, outlining the blood vessels. 轮廓使放射科医生能够看到血管堵塞或不规则.
  • Computerized Tomography (CT). 计算机断层扫描(CT)对身体进行详细的横断面成像,用于识别特定的神经系统疾病.
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). During magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the body is exposed to electromagnetic radiation that can detect, process and convert images of the body’s soft tissue, such as the brain or spinal cord, into computer images.

Clinical Drug Trials

神经科学研究所通过参与临床药物和外科研究试验,为患者提供机会,帮助医生找到神经系统疾病的答案.

Rehabilitation Services

Neuropsychology Services

作为该地区唯一同时拥有神经心理学家和行为心理学家的医生, 赌博正规软件下载为因身体受伤而遭受情绪/认知问题的患者提供专业护理. Inpatient rehabilitation staff helps patients develop coping skills, 建立适当的期望,并根据任何身体限制来调整他们的生活方式,以保持积极的人生观.

Nutritional Services

After an initial assessment, 病人在住院期间可以遵循个性化的营养计划,并每周由赌博正规软件下载的营养师和助手进行检查. 出院时,患者可能会收到关于未来营养问题的额外反馈.

Occupational Therapy

赌博正规软件下载的职业治疗师和助理专注于提高独立性和改善生活质量. 这包括为患者制定个性化的治疗方案,以帮助他们达到社会目标, emotional and physiological effects of illnesses and injuries, including spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and dementia. Caregivers also assist patients in restoring daily living activities, such as self-care, work and leisure.

Physical Therapy

通过练习和应用,促进和恢复正常的功能和发展, 赌博正规软件下载的物理治疗师和助理帮助病人克服受伤和其他身体衰弱的状况.

Recreational Therapy

赌博正规软件下载的娱乐治疗护理人员与患者一起提高技能,并提供必要的信息,以确保成功地适应他们的家庭或社区环境.

Social Work

赌博正规软件下载的社会工作者与患者家属会面,就改变生活方式向他们提供咨询,并将他们与社区资源联系起来,以满足患者的需求.

Speech Therapy

赌博正规软件下载提供语言评估和语言和吞咽评估, as well as all areas of speech pathology. After an initial assessment is completed, a plan of care is established with input from the patient’s family.

Ratings and Designations

美国心脏协会/美国中风协会- 2022获得指南® Gold Plus Stroke Award

美国心脏协会2022年获得指南金奖和中风奖

Saint Francis Medical Center has received the American Heart Association’s Gold Plus Award for its commitment to prioritizing quality care for stroke patients. 该奖项旨在表彰医院致力于确保中风患者根据国家认可的最适当的治疗, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence.

赌博正规软件下载因符合美国心脏协会制定的中风患者诊断和治疗的具体质量成就标准而获得该奖项. This is the third consecutive year Saint Francis has received this award, representing five cumulative years of exceeding the reporting metrics. 这些措施包括评估药物的正确使用以及与最新的中风治疗方法相一致的其他治疗方法, 以证据为基础的指南,目标是加速中风患者的康复,减少死亡和残疾. Before discharge, 患者还应接受管理健康的教育,并安排随访, as well as other care transition interventions.

The Joint Commission – Advanced Primary Stroke Center

The Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval

Saint Francis Healthcare System has earned The Joint Commission’s 金印章的批准®和美国中风协会的心脏检查标记先进的初级中风中心认证.

这是持续遵守国家标准和取得非凡成果的结果, 中风中心已第八次获得联合委员会颁发的疾病特异性护理初级中风中心认证证书. It was initially awarded in 2005.

2019年11月,圣弗朗西斯医疗系统进行了一次严格的、未经宣布的现场审查. During the visit, 联合委员会评审员小组评估了包括项目管理在内的相关认证标准的遵守情况, supporting self-management, and delivering and facilitating clinical care. 联合委员会的标准是在与保健专家和提供者协商后制定的, measurement experts and patients. The reviewers also conducted onsite observations and interviews.