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Bay Village EMS credited for rapid response that helped patient recover from major stroke
Summary
City leaders recognized Bay Village paramedics after Cleveland Clinic physicians described a March 18 response that allowed immediate hospital stroke treatment; paramedics, clinic staff and firefighters received certificates at the May 5 committee meeting.
Bay Village officials on May 5 publicly recognized local EMS personnel whose prehospital actions on March 18 helped a woman survive a major stroke and leave the hospital with only mild symptoms. Andrew Dennis, an emergency physician at Cleveland Clinic, told the council the patient arrived after paramedics “activated a prehospital stroke alert” and had an initial score of 21 on the NIH Stroke Scale, a level he…
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