Recently a woman experiencing a sudden acute cerebral infarction (stroke) was out of danger after being sent to Kuichong People’s Hospital, a branch hospital of the Second People’s Hospital of Shenzhen, and underwent thrombolysis in just 28 minutes, sznews.com reported March 24.

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The woman is surnamed Liu and lives in Kuichong Subdistrict, Dapeng New District. According to the report, her symptoms had improved significantly and she was then able to get out of bed and walk normally.

It was reported that at 7:30 a.m. that day, Liu suddenly felt dizzy, and experienced facial distortion, slurred speech, weakness of her right arm and leg, and unstable walking. At first she tried resting, which didn’t make her feel better. The family called 120 at 8:40 a.m. and Liu was received with a presumptive diagnosis of acute cerebral infarction. At 9:25 a.m. the patient arrived at Kuichong People’s Hospital and the hospital immediately enabled its green channel for stroke to send Liu to the Emergency Department for bloodwork, an electrocardiogram and a CT examination.

At the same time, after a joint consultation with Chen Bin, director of the Department of Neurology, the woman was initially diagnosed with acute cerebral infarction. At 9:53 a.m., she was treated intravenously with the thrombolysis drug alteplase. The thrombolysis process was smooth and effective, and the patient’s activities returned to normal after the thrombolysis treatment.

It was significant that it took only 28 minutes from the patient’s arrival to the administration of intravenous thrombolytic drugs, as it was deemed the fastest thrombolysis case since Kuichong People’s Hospital was approved as the designated hospital for acute stroke medical treatment in Shenzhen, the report added.