According to the 115 Emergency Center, providing emergency care for stroke patients remains challenging due to the limited number of standard stroke treatment facilities.
The 115 Emergency Center provided emergency care to 115 stroke patients outside of hospitals in the third quarter of this year - Photo: 115 Emergency Center
On November 28th, the 115 Emergency Center held a review meeting on the first three months of implementing the program for managing the quality of pre-hospital stroke emergency care and received the gold award from EMS Angles (a professional award in the field of quality management of pre-hospital stroke emergency care procedures).
Speaking at the summary meeting, Dr. Le Nguyen Hoang, deputy director of the 115 Emergency Center, said that the center has made great efforts to quickly transport ambulances to the scene where patients are present. However, transporting patients to medical facilities for treatment still faces challenges.
The reason is that the number of stroke treatment facilities in Ho Chi Minh City that meet world standards is limited, and patients who need to be transferred to their desired hospitals are not on the list of hospitals that provide treatment.
According to statistics from the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health, by 2020, Ho Chi Minh City had 26 medical facilities that received and treated stroke patients. However, only slightly more than half were accredited by the World Stroke Organization (WSO).
Statistics for the third quarter of 2024 show that the 115 Emergency Center provided emergency care to 115 stroke patients outside of hospitals. In these cases, the time it took for professional emergency personnel to reach the scene where the stroke patient was located was approximately 12 minutes.
The rate of hospitals notified in advance reached 99%, and the rate of patients referred to hospitals prepared to treat stroke or hospitals meeting standards reached 89%.
In addition, the rate of patients whose medical history was obtained was 100%, and the rate of patients whose stroke symptoms were reported was also 100%.
Thus, the proportion of patients transferred to hospitals equipped to treat stroke or hospitals meeting the standards remains low, only reaching the gold level out of three levels (gold, platinum, and diamond) according to the EMS Angels award's criteria for evaluating the quality of emergency care for stroke patients.
The 115 Emergency Center receives the EMS Angels award, achieving world gold standard - Photo: BUI NHI
According to Dr. Hoang, in the future, the 115 Emergency Center will continue to play its role, aiming to build a professional and modern out-of-hospital emergency system in the city that meets the needs of the people.
Here, Dr. Bui Nguyen Thanh Long - Deputy Head of the Medical Professional Department of the Department of Health - also acknowledged the efforts of the 115 Emergency Center in the past period.
He said: “Over the past 10 years, the pre-hospital emergency network has continuously expanded and improved in quality with the coordination of 31 stations located in public institutions and 12 stations located in private institutions, forming 43 satellite emergency stations covering all of Ho Chi Minh City, including a waterway emergency station in Can Gio district. The results achieved demonstrate the sustainable development of this network.”
Towards perfecting the pre-hospital stroke emergency response process.
The EMS Angels Award is a professional award in the field of quality management of pre-hospital stroke emergency care, implemented by the European Society for Emergency Medicine (EUSEM) in collaboration with the global Stroke Quality Management System (RES-Q) and the Angels Initiative program.
This award is based on expert advice from the World Stroke Organization (WSO) and the European Stroke Organization (ESO). The award has three levels: gold, platinum, and diamond, aiming to improve pre-hospital stroke emergency care.
Source: https://tuoitre.vn/tp-hcm-con-it-co-so-dieu-tri-dot-quy-dat-chuan-20241128122539683.htm
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