AdventHealth Redmond is happy to announce a brand new interventional neurology program to deal with advanced stroke instances and mind aneurysms. Jose Marino, MD, has joined AdventHealth Medical Group Interventional Neurology at Rome and gives emergency look after stroke sufferers at AdventHealth Redmond. That is the primary and solely program of its form in Northwest Georgia and Northeast Alabama.
“The aim of this new, superior stroke program is to allow sufferers to obtain time-critical stroke remedy near residence,” mentioned Karen Steely, chief working officer of service line improvement for AdventHealth Medical Group for AdventHealth Georgia. “Many individuals from our space who expertise a stroke are transferred to bigger cities for interventional procedures. Each second counts in halting a stroke’s injury to the mind and now, we will save extra lives and stop long-term opposed results in these advanced instances.”
When carried out shortly after a stroke begins, eradicating the clot within the AdventHealth Redmond interventional neurology working room can restore blood movement, saving treasured mind cells, decreasing the danger of incapacity and demise.
“A very powerful factor for individuals to know, is that should you really feel any of the B.E. F.A.S.T. signs of a stroke, waste no time, name 911 and head to AdventHealth Redmond’s emergency division,” Dr. Marino mentioned. “Our workforce gives the one stroke surgical procedure remedy on this space, regardless of your kind of stroke, so you possibly can give attention to therapeutic and getting again to your common life.”
The B.E.F.A.S.T acronym refers to signs that embody:
- Steadiness (sudden loss)
- Eyesight/imaginative and prescient adjustments
- Face (drooped or uneven)
- Arm (sudden weak spot or numbness)
- Speech (sudden slurring or issue talking)
- Time to name 911
When a affected person is experiencing these stroke-symptoms and arrives on the emergency division, AdventHealth Redmond’s stroke response workforce has the aim to carry out all vital exams and supply remedy beneath half-hour. This remedy could embody administration of a clot busting medicine to interrupt down the blood clot within the mind. Nonetheless, in as much as 30% of instances, a minimally invasive process referred to as a thrombectomy is likely to be required to revive blood movement to the a part of the mind blocked by a blood clot.
Fellowship-trained in vascular and interventional neurology, Dr. Marino makes use of stay X-ray steerage to navigate particular catheters and units from the groin or wrist to the mind to deal with blocked arteries inflicting strokes. As well as, he can even deal with mind bleeds and aneurysms that pose a danger to sufferers.
AdventHealth Redmond has led the best way for many years by exceeding nationwide stroke remedy time averages and now considerably surpasses nationwide statistics for profitable stroke intervention outcomes for instances handled since August of 2024.
“Our preliminary numbers present that we have now higher outcomes than nationwide averages and that is doubtless as a result of our sufferers wouldn’t have to attend to be transferred to a different metropolis to obtain this time-sensitive process,” Dr. Marino mentioned.
Dr. Marino has not too long ago witnessed firsthand the distinction that AdventHealth Redmond’s stroke interventions have made in sufferers’ lives and general well-being.
Cedartown resident, Joseph Powers, introduced to the AdventHealth Redmond emergency room (ER) final August with stroke signs. Dr. Marino and his workforce had been prepped and prepared for this system’s first affected person after being alerted by the ambulance driver. They instantly took motion to guage Powers as quickly as he arrived, shortly concluding that he had skilled a stroke and wanted surgical procedure. Simply three days later, Powers was already up and strolling, first, 40 steps. Then 80 the following day after which 260 the day after that.
“I give Dr. Marino and his neurological workforce the credit score for the place I’m at and the place I can go,” Powers mentioned. “And with out them, I’ve little doubt in my thoughts it wouldn’t have occurred. I don’t suppose I’d have had the standard of life.”
Dr. Marino mentioned. “Previous to this 12 months, it could not have been potential for the sufferers to have this remedy in Rome. They’d have needed to journey an hour or extra for a neurointervention. Moreover, relations are in a position to go to and be an lively a part of their liked one’s remedy and restoration as they recuperate near their very own residence.”
Along with emergency stroke remedy, Dr. Marino and his care workforce see sufferers with a private or household historical past of head bleeds or aneurysms in addition to sufferers affected by pulsatile ringing within the ear, subdural hematoma and protracted nostril bleeds.
Dr. Marino mentioned, “I really feel referred to as to this area of drugs due to my fascination with the complexity of the mind and the unimaginable chance of stopping life-altering neurologic injury.”
For extra details about the AdventHealth interventional neurology program and Dr. Marino, please name 706-413-8834.
