University of Kansas Hospital
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—The University of Kansas Hospital reports it is already using a new technique praised in the in today’s New England Journal of Medicine as a major breakthrough in serious stroke care.
Marilyn Rymer, MD, vice president of neurosciences at The University of Kansas Hospital, says going directly to large blood clots blocking blood vessels to the brain and removing them was 70 percent more effective in producing positive patient outcomes than the current standard of care, which is IV infusion of clot busting drugs.
