AdventHealth Redmond introduced a brand new interventional neurology program to deal with complicated stroke circumstances 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 variety in Northwest Georgia and Northeast Alabama.
“The objective of this new, superior stroke program is to allow sufferers to obtain time-critical stroke remedy near dwelling,” stated 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 are able to save extra lives and stop long-term opposed results in these complicated circumstances.”
When carried out rapidly after a stroke begins, eradicating the clot within the AdventHealth Redmond interventional neurology working room can restore blood move, saving valuable mind cells, lowering the chance of incapacity and demise.
“A very powerful factor for individuals to know, is that in case 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 stated. “Our workforce gives the one stroke surgical procedure remedy on this space, regardless of your sort of stroke, so you’ll be able to concentrate on therapeutic and getting again to your common life.”
The B.E.F.A.S.T acronym refers to signs that embody:
- Stability (sudden loss)
- Eyesight/imaginative and prescient adjustments
- Face (drooped or uneven)
- Arm (sudden weak spot or numbness)
- Speech (sudden slurring or problem 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 objective to carry out all crucial exams and supply remedy beneath half-hour. This remedy might embody administration of a clot busting remedy to interrupt down the blood clot within the mind. Nonetheless, in as much as 30% of circumstances, a minimally invasive process known as a thrombectomy may be required to revive blood move to the a part of the mind blocked by a blood clot.
Fellowship-trained in vascular and interventional neurology, Dr. Marino makes use of reside 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 may deal with mind bleeds and aneurysms that pose a threat to sufferers.
AdventHealth Redmond has led the way in which for many years by exceeding nationwide stroke remedy time averages and now considerably surpasses nationwide statistics for profitable stroke intervention outcomes for circumstances handled since August of 2024.
“Our preliminary numbers present that we’ve higher outcomes than nationwide averages and that is possible as a result of our sufferers shouldn’t have to attend to be transferred to a different metropolis to obtain this time-sensitive process,” Dr. Marino stated.
Dr. Marino has just lately 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 have been prepped and prepared for this system’s first affected person after being alerted by the ambulance driver. They instantly took motion to judge Powers as quickly as he arrived, rapidly 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 subsequent 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 stated. “And with out them, I’ve little question in my thoughts it wouldn’t have occurred. I don’t assume I’d have had the standard of life.”
Dr. Marino stated. “Previous to this yr, it might not have been potential for the sufferers to have this remedy in Rome. They might have needed to journey an hour or extra for a neurointervention. Moreover, members of the family are capable of go to and be an lively a part of their cherished one’s remedy and restoration as they get better near their very own dwelling.”
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 chronic nostril bleeds.
Dr. Marino stated, “I really feel known as to this area of medication due to my fascination with the complexity of the mind and the unbelievable chance of stopping life-altering neurologic injury.”
For extra details about the AdventHealth interventional neurology program and Dr. Marino, please name Name706-413-8834.
