GRAMPIANS Health researchers are looking to improve the outcomes for patients who experience an in-hospital stroke.<\/p>\n
An in-hospital stroke occurs once a patient is already admitted, and these patients are more likely to experience a worse outcome than those who have a stroke out of hospital.<\/p>\n
Stroke is the second leading cause or mortality and morbidity worldwide and Grampians Health’s Casey Hair, Victorian Stroke Telemedicine (VST) site-coordinator, is working to improve outcomes.<\/p>\n
“The aim of this study is to identify people at-risk for suffering in-hospital strokes, and from this, to understand how to guide hospital policy, education, and practice to mitigate as much risk for these patients as possible,” she said.<\/p>\n
“By looking at the data of research studies conducted around the world, we can bring together all the information to find commonalities about risk-factors for in-hospital stroke.<\/p>\n
“This can be used to help us treat our patients to hopefully reduce their risk of stroke while also alerting staff to these patients to monitor them more closely,”<\/p>\n
When someone is experiencing stroke symptoms, it is important to react quickly and, being able to recognise a patient is at a higher risk of experiencing an in-hospital stroke will help long term outcomes.<\/p>\n
Former Grampians Health junior medical doctor, Dr Matthew Heard, started this project in early 2024 and it is now continuing under Ms Hair.<\/p>\n
“We’re very lucky to be undertaking this important research here,” said Ms Hair.<\/p>\n
“Matt kicked off this project for us and got us very far along before moving to another health service.<\/p>\n
“We’re grateful that his leadership got us most of the way through the research and we can continue to help patients now and into the future.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
GRAMPIANS Health researchers are looking to improve the outcomes for patients who experience an in-hospital stroke. An in-hospital stroke occurs once a patient is already admitted, and these patients are more likely to experience a worse outcome than those who have a stroke out of hospital. Stroke is the second leading cause or mortality and […]<\/p>\n