MUSC-RMC pact offers treatments for area

Posted: Published on April 7th, 2015

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A patient begins to experience stroke symptoms and is rushed to the Regional Medical Center's emergency room.

The patient is then taken to the hospital's CAT scan machine, images are taken and the patient is immediately assessed.

"Stroke is a devastating disease," RMC Emergency Room Medical Director Dr. Daniel Avosso said. "The interesting thing about a stroke is that it is one of those illnesses where every second matters.

The clock is running from the minute you have symptoms until you receive treatment."

Before medicine is provided, a neurologist needs to be consulted. But getting a neurologist early in the morning could take precious minutes away from the stroke patient's recovery.

Until now.

RMC and the Medical University of South Carolina on Monday celebrated a formal agreement between the two institutions that will provide local patients better access to life-saving medicine and procedures.

One such procedure introduced as part of the affiliation is the telestroke or telemedicine technology.

"By the time they (the patient) come back five, six, seven minutes later, there is a neurologist in their room waiting for them to do the evaluation on the TV screen," Avosso said.

Telemedicine is the use of electronic communication methods, such as telephone, Internet and videoconferencing, to exchange medical information from one site to another.

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