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Amsterdam, the Netherlands – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in #health technology, today announced it will showcase the company’s latest advances to support the treatment of stroke patients at the 14th Annual World Stroke Congress (WSC 2022, October 26-29, Singapore). Philips’ end-to-end stroke care solutions help advance stroke care through early detection and an optimized workflow that reduces the time to treatment – a key factor in delivering the best stroke patient outcomes. To connect information, technologies, and #people across the stroke care pathway, enabling care teams to work quickly and act decisively, #philips works closely with stroke care partners such as MedTech stroke care company Nicolab, who will join #philips at the #2022worldstrokecongress.
Globally, one in four adults over the age of 25 will suffer a stroke in their lifetime, making it the leading cause of disability and the second leading cause of death worldwide. The key to improving outcomes for stroke patients is to provide treatment as quickly as possible. Physicians in an emergency stroke setting are fighting the clock and under intense pressure to make optimal treatment decisions. Despite the imperative for speed, care teams currently lose valuable time due to gaps in communication, information, and access to stroke expertise.
"This World Stroke Day we are committed to improving stroke care,” said #angeliquebalguid, Head of Marketing for Neurovascular Portfolio at #philips. “At each vital step, from early detection to treatment and recovery, we are collaborating with caregivers to speed up the stroke care pathway, because every minute matters for stroke patients. We aim to push the boundaries and set new standards, so that clinicians can act faster, improve outcomes, and grow access to care.”
Challenging the status quo of stroke care
On Wednesday, October 26, from 12:00 to 13:00 in Hall Summit 2 at this year’s World Stroke Congress, #philips will host a satellite symposium with talks from leading clinical stroke care experts, featuring Drs. Rotem Sivan-Hoffman, Head of the Radiology Department at Meir Medical Center (Haifa, Israel) and founder and Chief Medical Officer at CVAid, Prof. dr. Wim H. Van Zwam, PhD, Interventional Radiologist at Maastricht University Medical Center (Maastricht, The Netherlands), and Dr. Marc Ribó, PhD, interventional neurologist at University Hospital Vall d'Hebron, (Barcelona,Spain). The discussion will be moderated by Philips’ #angeliquebalguid and explore a range of topics, including the early detection of stroke, new guidelines for reperfusion therapy, and the health-economic impact of a novel stroke pathway: the direct-to-angio-suite approach.
Solutions across the stroke care pathway
Philips’ comprehensive stroke suite includes solutions for stroke monitoring and communication in ambulances, tele-stroke patient assessment, diagnostic imaging and analysis, image-guided therapy, neurological monitoring and assessment, and more. These solutions are aimed at improving diagnostic confidence and time to treatment, and helping reduce the risk of a second stroke.
The future of stroke care
To learn more about Philips’ stroke care solutions and stroke management click here. A media backgrounder on how #philips is enabling the future of stroke care by connecting and integrating the patient journey can be found here.
Social responsibility
Earlier this week, the Philips Foundation announced it is exploring the possibilities of deploying Philips' expertise in stroke care in underserved settings, as well as supporting several projects designed to identify best practices and scalable initiatives to create a bedrock for better stroke care, such as the support of the development of a new online platform called Collavidence to increase stroke research funding.
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