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The Angels Initiative is a healthcare intervention dedicated to improving stroke patients’ chances of survival and a disability-free life. Since 2016, an estimated 7,5 million patients have been treated in over 6,000 Angels hospitals worldwide, including more than 1,400 new stroke-ready hospitals established across the world with the help of ...
The aims and objectives of the Angels Initiative are to increase the number of patients treated in stroke-ready hospitals and to optimise the quality of treatment in all existing stroke centres. Cross-National key performance measures of the quality of acute stroke care in Western Europe were suggested in a paper by the European Implementation Score Collaboration 1 in Stroke in 2015.
Our mission is simple. To increase the number of patients treated in stroke-ready hospitals and to optimise the quality of treatment in all existing stroke centres. We are building a global community of stroke centres and stroke-ready hospitals, working every day to improve the quality of treatment for every stroke patient. Join now.
- I am not stupid, I am wounded. Please respect me. Stroke does not affect someone’s intelligence. A stroke is a “brain attack” that deprives different areas of the brain of oxygen-rich blood.
- Be as patient with me the twentieth time you teach me something as you were the first. Stroke recovery means relearning everything for the first time again.
- Protect my energy. No talk radio, TV, or nervous visitors. During stroke recovery, the brain needs stimulation in order to heal itself. But it needs specific stimulation – and not too much!
- Make eye contact with me. I am in here – come find me. Encourage me. If someone avoided eye contact with you, it would probably be upsetting, annoying, and hurtful.
The Angels Initiative seeks to greatly reduce the burden of stroke for countless patients by working with hospitals to build an innovative network of stroke-ready hospitals worldwide, including in Europe, to reduce treatment delays and provide patients with the optimal standard of acute stoke care. The initiative was launched in 2016 and is run ...
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Together to End Stroke Be a Stroke Hero Learn to spot a stroke F.A.S.T. What is stroke? A stroke occurs when the flow of oxygen to a part of the brain is blocked. Without oxygen, brain cells start to die within a few minutes. In the United States, nearly 800,000 people have a stroke every year, and around 130,000 of them die from it.
