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The OSU Stroke Center is dedicated to providing the most advanced treatment for stroke. Committed to preventing stroke and reducing its long-term effects, the Center provides life-saving treatment and various inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation programs that assist patients in regaining their independence.
The Emergency Department at OSU Medical Center is highly trained to triage people with a stroke. These experts alert the OSU Stroke Team when any patient arrives with a suspected stroke. This prompt treatment makes a difference in outcomes.
After confirming that a stroke has occurred, many stroke patients are treated within three hours of the onset of symptoms with a clot-dissolving drug called Tissue Plasminogen Activator (tPA). But an advanced version of this treatment is being performed by select medical centers with high expertise, including OSU.
This advanced treatment, also known as intra-arterial thrombolysis, is performed by an interventional neuroradiologist. This method allows tPA to be delivered straight to the source of the clot, instead of waiting for it to flow from a vein into the bloodstream and to the brain. In addition, this treatment can be given up to six hours after the onset of a stroke. At OSU, interventional neuroradiologists are on-call 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
University Health Consortium (UHC), an association of university medical centers, identified OSU Medical Center as one of the four best performing stroke centers in the country. OSU was UHC's national benchmark hospital on three of the five key indicators measured in its study.
To learn more about the OSU approach to stroke and our other stroke services to treat and help you recover from stroke, call (614) 293-5123 or (800) 293-5123.
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