BELLUNO. Medal gold for the hospital San Martino Of Belluno in the treatment of patients affected by stroke: the international prize was awarded for the 2025but there are still too many cases of people That they neglect and symptoms. “Older people who they live alone and perhaps further away and that, in front of the symptomsthey simply wait let them pass: about this we cannot actserve more awareness” he comments Franco Ferraccidirector of neurology.
Let’s start from recognition. Il Saint Martin was classified as “oro” In the fourth quarter 2025 within the scope ofThe ESO-Angels Awards programan award that certifies quality in the management of patients with stroke. It’s about the leading cause of disability in adultsthe second Of dementia and the third of deaths in industrialized countries. A Bellunolast year neurology managed 235 hospitalizations and executed 55 thrombolysis (treatment con drug) e 9 trombectomie (removal of clot through intervention), on patients coming from the Belluno area but also from Alpago, Zoldano e Cadore.
It’s about satisfactory numbers according to the commissioner Giuseppe branch me. “A year ago we were talking about receive thrombectomy – he observes – therefore we have done so to date a little wayThe ability to perform these interventions it is in fact recent for Belluno: i first cases date back to 2023 and, within a couple of years of distancethey already are there are two doctors who perform themincluding the director of radiology Giovanni Crossbowman. “The operation – he explains – consists in removing the blood clot in the villages cerebral with a catheter. It is not executable in all cases strokebut only where the angio–tac detects a large clottherefore the diagnosis phase is fundamentalas well as the times between the CT scan and the operating room”.
Stroke is in fact one pathology tempo–employee. “Therapies can be administered effectively – specifies Ferracci – but in a narrow time window. There are two: the intervention of trombectomiaa novelty for Belluno for which we are here very popularand the drugwhich can be administered only within 4 and a half hours of the onset of symptomswith a procedure administration that currently dura an hour (but another drug will arrive soon same effectiveness e administrable in few minutes)”.
“We are very proud of the award – he continues – because, beyond the numbersthere are people who they work for the good of patients in facing an enemy against which we feel involved. It’s certainly a process of constant improvement, we are a group of intervention quick and we follow a path that establishes who does what at any time. However, in addition to good practices Of prevention for a correct stile of lifeit also counts reaction of the patient: In the our territoryfor his characteristics demographics e orographicthey are still there too many patients who could be effectively treated but they come somehow lost Why they arrive late in hospital. They are often elderly people who live distant e alone and that, at appearance of symptoms Of paralysis In the body o In the total o di I disturb in the wordthey simply put on on the sofa and wait for them to pass. Or they wait for the come back in of children from workwhen they are several hours have already passed: it is, however, indispensable alert quickly i rescuedalso via i devices life saver”.
date: 2026-02-14 05:48:00