On September 15, the RENS delivered the Treatment Ischemic Stroke Course at the Irkutsk Regional Clinical Hospital. The course was attended by practitioners from the Irkutsk Oblast and neighboring regions of Siberia. During individual consultations, lecturers answered the questions from the participants.
“Updating this course we always try to take into account, first of all, the interests of the participants who have not only different qualifications, experience, but also work with different medical institutions. In this regard, we are constantly expanding the geography of the educational course and are very pleased that in 2023 we will hold one of them in Irkutsk”, noted Kirill Yu. Orlov, M.D., Director of the RENS, Head of the Research Center for Endovascular Neurosurgery at the FMBU’s Federal Center of Brain Research and Neurotechnologies.
The course’s reports were focused on individualized approaches to the treatment of acute ischemic stroke; modern ideas about the histological structure of a thrombus; thromboextraction and thromboaspiration. These issues were covered in the reports by Mikhail Yu. Volodyukhin, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Head of X-ray Surgical Department at Interregional Clinical and Diagnostic Center, Main Freelance Expert for X-ray Endovascular Diagnostics and Treatment of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan.
“If in the 90s the management of stroke patients was a complete rest for 21 days, now, thanks to the vascular program, everything has changed completely, treatment has become active and involves active, thrombolysis and thromboextraction – we can approach a thrombus in a vessel and extract it… As a result, the patient leaves the hospital sometimes on the 7th day on their feet, a patient who upon admission was neither able to talk nor walk…”, said Ivan Korobeinikov, Head of the Regional Vascular Center, Deputy Chief Physician of the Irkutsk Regional Clinical Hospital.
During the course, special attention was paid to the nuances of endovascular stroke treatment, its etiology and pathogenesis, and the latest Russian and international recommendations. The RENS thanks the participants of the course in Irkutsk and invites them to attend the final part free of charge in Moscow. The event takes place on November 1-2 at the FMBA’a Federal Center of Brain Research and Neurotechnology.