Between 20h00 and 24h00 and on weekends and holidays, there are no longer neuroradiologists in Braga to perform trombectomias. Professionals warn of the risks to the sick.
From mthat o It failed to ensure all the services of Via Verde stroke. The patients are being sent to Porto hospitals. Health professionals They claim what The situation causes risks.
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Ebetween as 20h00 e as 24h00 and on weekends and holidays, There is no longer neurorradiologistas To perform trombectomias – The procedure for removing clots that block a blood vessel in the brain.
“If we are delaying the process, we risk unsuccessful and the sick is irreversible sequelae,” warns Rui Lázaro, President of Union of prehospital emergency technicians.
The reason blockade It is merely bureaucratic: a divergence between management and professionals about a decree that increases remuneration.
Order of doctors waits for solution in September
In an answer sent to SIC, o HBraga Ospital ensures that all changes in Via VeRDE stroke were communicated and that, when patients need to be subjected to a trombectomia, are referenced to other units response, namely the São João Hospital and the Gaia Hospital.
“We have received reports that our ambulances in Braga have already made transfers from patients from Braga Hospital to São João Hospital that will perform trombectomia and then return to the Braga Hospital, which takes occupation of our ambulances, when they should be available for hospital emergency and not for transfer Hospital, ”warns Rui Lázaro.
The administration of the hospital ensures, however, to be already fulfilling the remuneration conditions provided for, awaiting higher nominations for prevention payment.
Despite that, the answer in the night service of Via VERDE AVC has not yet been replaced. One situation that the order of doctors expects to see resolved already in September.
