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RES-Q August Update

RES-Q has several new initiatives to announce, along with new tools, and another round of results data.  Some of the highlights in their update are: New dashboard which will be updated daily and provide visualization for the most important metrics collected in RES-Q. This dashboard will be available to every hospital to provide a current […]

Prominent Members Under 45: Interview with Diana Aguiar de Sousa

For 2018, via the ESO newsletter, we are focusing the spotlight on prominent ESO members under 45. In January we introduced you to Georgios K. Tsivgoulis. For February, we learned more about Else Charlotte Sandset. In March we presented Urs Fischer. In April you met Charlotte Cordonnier. Hopefully you were able to meet some of […]

Promotion of ESO-EAST Activities at National Hospital of Kyrgyzstan

On 13.04.2018 Kyrgyz ESO-EAST team made it possible to organize a key-event: the conference at National Hospital of Ministry of Health with the participation of Ministry of Health representatives, WHO regional office in Kyrgyzstan and doctors of neurological departments of National Hospital of Kyrgyzstan. National Hospital is the flagman of medical services in Kyrgyzstan and […]

Maybe She is Telling You the Localisation!

Dr Linxin Li, Dr Michele Romoli and Dr Dearbhla Kelly Patient PT has a background history of functional disorder. She also has untreated hypertension and hyperlipidaemia and is an ex-smoker. She is now referred to the high-risk TIA clinic following a transient neurological attack. This time she was visiting an unwell family member in the […]

Department to Department Visit Programme Report by Csilla Forro

Report by Csilla Forro Throughout the ESO Department to Department Visit Programme I had the opportunity to gain both experience and theoretical knowledge in acute stroke management at Hungary‘s leading Institute in this field – the National Institute of Clinical Neurosciences of Budapest. During my fellowship I participated in the morning meetings where challenging cases […]

Stroke School at Kyrgyzstan, NIHSS training

On the 5th July, 2018 the important step in promoting the activity of the ESO-EAST community in Kyrgyzstan was attempted: the first NIHSS training made by WHO expert, Dr.Francesca Pezzella was organised. This day was also very significant for neurologists in Kyrgyzstan: more than 20 doctors underwent an intensive training about using NIHSS scale in […]

Illicit Drug Use and the Risk of Stroke

Author: Dr Nicolas Martinez-Majander Affiliation: Department of Neurology, Helsinki University Hospital, Finland   Illicit drug use covers prohibited use of illegal drugs and inappropriate use of pharmaceutical drugs or other substances, such as certain inhalants. In Europe during 2017 up to 7% of inhabitants 15 years or older had used cannabis and 1% had used […]

Implementation of RES-Q Project in Kyrgyzstan

Submitted by Inna Lutsenko In November 2016, Kyrgyzstan joined the RES-Q project: two stroke departments of the city of Bishkek: City Clinical Hospital No.1 and Chui Regional Joint Hospital became the pioneers of the implementation of this registry. Heads of the angioneurological departments of the two hospitals Dr. Artykbaev Abdusalim and Dr. Apyshev Alybek supported […]

Prolonged cardiac monitoring: it is not just atrial fibrillation!

Author: Dr Linxin Li This week in the TIA clinic, we have got two patients with lone bilateral loss of vision. Mr A is a 63-year old man, with known history of ischaemic heart disease, hypertension and hyperlipidaemia, for which he is currently treated with Aspirin, Bisoprolol, Spironolactone, Ramipril and high dose Atorvastatin. He presented […]