Creating a 1.5-hour stroke golden treatment circle around Nanjing

  Cerebrovascular disease is a serious threat to human health and is the number one cause of death in China. The incidence of stroke in China is increasing at a rate of 8.7% per year, and after the onset of stroke, two million brain cells die every minute. Yesterday, China Stroke Alliance held a plaque ceremony in Suwan region, a total of 59 hospitals in Suwan region joined the alliance, the future will form a 1.5-hour golden treatment circle, stroke patients will be able to get treatment at the first time.  It is understood that 43 hospitals in Jiangsu, 14 hospitals in Anhui, 1 hospital in Shanghai and 1 hospital in Nanchang joined the alliance, including hospitals in Nanjing, Yangzhou, Taizhou, Suzhou, Wuxi and Changzhou in Jiangsu.  Professor Liu Xinfeng, director of the Department of Neurology, said that stroke is a highly disabling and fatal disease, its disability rate is 50 percent, the death rate is also 20 to 30 percent, so once the stroke occurred after the occlusion of large blood vessels, emergency treatment is very important, so there is a golden rescue time, in the usual medical terms is 4.5 hours, within this time, there are drugs to open the blood vessels to dissolve But if you come to the hospital more than 4.5 hours later, even if the doctors open it or use drugs, the risk will increase and the possibility of recovery will be greatly reduced, so the earlier the better.  However, Professor Liu also said that in China, the patients who can be sent to the hospital in 3 or 4.5 hours, is about seven or six percent, and 90 percent are missed this length of time, so many patients do not get effective treatment. With such an alliance, an advanced central hospital will be formed in a region, and the central hospital will be able to solve difficult cerebrovascular-related diseases regardless of software or hardware, and cover the region, forming a 1.5-hour driving circle for treatment. “For example, the General Hospital is an advanced central hospital covering Nanjing and some surrounding areas. If a patient in Lishui has a sudden stroke and calls 120, the local hospital can perform first treatment, first drug thrombolysis, this process can be done in the emergency vehicle, and at the same time call our hospital and describe the condition, our hospital can be ready to wait for this patient in time, before Before the patient arrives at the hospital, all emergency work is ready, and once the patient arrives, the next step of treatment can be done immediately, so that valuable rescue time can be fought.” With the alliance, even if the experts are not on site, they can still conduct remote consultation and technical support through the system to help primary care institutions save patients and win valuable time for patients’ life rescue.