{"id":18015,"date":"2022-08-05T19:35:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T19:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/news\/southcoast-stroke-treatment\/"},"modified":"2022-08-05T19:35:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T19:35:05","slug":"southcoast-stroke-treatment","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/news\/southcoast-stroke-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"El Dr. Daniel Sacchetti lidera el Programa de Accidentes Cerebrovasculares de Southcoast Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aproximadamente tres veces al d\u00eda, un paciente acude a uno de los tres centros de urgencias de Southcoast Health con s\u00edntomas de ictus. El reloj ya corre para esos pacientes, para quienes el tratamiento debe comenzar r\u00e1pidamente para limitar los da\u00f1os que causa un ictus, a veces denominado \"ataque cerebral\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Con un gran n\u00famero de personas mayores y altas tasas de tabaquismo y obesidad, la Regi\u00f3n de la Costa Sur tiene una poblaci\u00f3n con mayor riesgo de sufrir enfermedades cardiovasculares, incluido el ictus. En 2020, unos 900 pacientes con ictus fueron tratados en los hospitales de Southcoast Health a trav\u00e9s de la <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/services\/brain-and-spine-treatment\/#\/slot-search\/specialtyGroup\/7DEAE7B0-3204-4BCA-B60F-5BDBB8FA9C02\">Southcoast Brain and Spine Center<\/a> bajo la direcci\u00f3n del neurocirujano <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/doctors\/matthew-philips-md\/\">Dr. Matthew Philips<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El pasado septiembre, el Dr. Philips contrat\u00f3 al neur\u00f3logo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/doctors\/daniel-sacchetti-do\/\">Dr. Daniel Sacchetti<\/a> para desempe\u00f1ar el cargo de director de ictus del sistema sanitario, coordinando los esfuerzos de los neur\u00f3logos y proveedores de cuidados avanzados de Southcoast Health que diagnostican y tratan a las v\u00edctimas de ictus. El Dr. Sacchetti trabaja en <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/locations\/st-lukes-hospital\/\">Hospital St. Luke<\/a> en New Bedford, coordinando los esfuerzos de los especialistas de <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/locations\/charlton-memorial-hospital\/\">Hospital Charlton Memorial<\/a> y <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/locations\/tobey-hospital\/\">Hospital de Tobey<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seg\u00fan el Dr. Sacchetti, alrededor del 87% de las v\u00edctimas de ictus sufren ictus isqu\u00e9micos, que se producen cuando un co\u00e1gulo de sangre obstruye una arteria que lleva sangre al cerebro y provoca s\u00edntomas como visi\u00f3n borrosa, debilidad o entumecimiento de brazos o piernas, boca ca\u00edda, dificultad para hablar y confusi\u00f3n mental. El resto de las v\u00edctimas de ictus sufren ictus hemorr\u00e1gicos: rotura de vasos sangu\u00edneos que provoca hemorragias cerebrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Para prestar asistencia lo m\u00e1s r\u00e1pidamente posible, los hospitales Southcoast utilizan la telemedicina para ofrecer consultas especializadas a los pacientes que llegan al servicio de urgencias con s\u00edntomas de ictus. Esta tecnolog\u00eda se utiliza desde hace a\u00f1os porque permite a los neur\u00f3logos observar los s\u00edntomas de un paciente y coordinar r\u00e1pidamente la atenci\u00f3n con los m\u00e9dicos de urgencias y los especialistas en diagn\u00f3stico por imagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"La telemedicina existe desde hace mucho tiempo, espec\u00edficamente en relaci\u00f3n con los accidentes cerebrovasculares\", explica. \"Neurolog\u00eda y psiquiatr\u00eda son las m\u00e1s orientadas a la telemedicina\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Los m\u00e9dicos suelen solicitar un TAC (tomograf\u00eda computarizada) nada m\u00e1s llegar para determinar si el paciente est\u00e1 sufriendo un ictus hemorr\u00e1gico. La mayor\u00eda de los pacientes con ictus hemorr\u00e1gico, junto con los que sufren una obstrucci\u00f3n en una arteria principal, necesitar\u00e1n recibir amplios cuidados avanzados.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Si el TAC indica que no hay hemorragia cerebral, se eval\u00faa a los pacientes para un posible tratamiento.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>En ocasiones, los m\u00e9dicos pueden administrar f\u00e1rmacos que disuelven los co\u00e1gulos sangu\u00edneos y a menudo restablecen las funciones del paciente si el tratamiento se inicia en las cuatro horas y media siguientes a la aparici\u00f3n de los s\u00edntomas. \"Esto se denomina <a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/ency\/article\/007089.htm#:~:text=Thrombolytic%20therapy%20is%20the%20use,both%20heart%20attacks%20and%20stroke.\">terapia trombol\u00edtica<\/a>Y es muy eficaz si esos f\u00e1rmacos anticoagulantes se administran con prontitud\", afirma el Dr. Sacchetti.  Si hay una arteria principal ocluida, los pacientes pueden someterse a una intervenci\u00f3n para extirpar la arteria obstruida.  Este procedimiento puede realizarse a veces hasta 24 horas despu\u00e9s de la aparici\u00f3n de los s\u00edntomas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"En realidad, todo depende del tiempo transcurrido. Cuanto antes empiece el tratamiento, m\u00e1s posibilidades tiene el paciente de recuperar la funci\u00f3n.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Muchos pacientes no reconocen que est\u00e1n sufriendo un ictus y llegan al hospital demasiado tarde para que la terapia trombol\u00edtica sea eficaz, por lo que muchos casos de ictus isqu\u00e9mico no pueden tratarse. Las campa\u00f1as de educaci\u00f3n p\u00fablica sobre los s\u00edntomas del ictus son esenciales para mejorar la llegada a tiempo y el posible tratamiento del ictus. .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tras la evaluaci\u00f3n para un posible tratamiento, los pacientes ingresan en el hospital y se someten a un estudio diagn\u00f3stico para determinar por qu\u00e9 han sufrido un ictus, ya que son muchas las afecciones que pueden provocarlo.  Por lo general, los pacientes se someten a una resonancia magn\u00e9tica, que utiliza imanes y ondas de radio para identificar el tejido cerebral da\u00f1ado por un ictus isqu\u00e9mico.  Otras pruebas habituales son la monitorizaci\u00f3n cardiaca, un ecocardiograma para evaluar la funci\u00f3n cardiaca y varias pruebas de laboratorio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tras el tratamiento agudo, se suele recetar a los pacientes una estatina y aspirina para prevenir futuros accidentes cerebrovasculares. Sin embargo, el mejor tratamiento preventivo es cambiar los h\u00e1bitos de vida: dejar de fumar, reducir el peso, limitar el consumo de alcohol, seguir una dieta m\u00e1s sana y hacer ejercicio con regularidad, afirma el Dr. Sacchetti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"Ese tipo de cambios ofrecen la mayor recompensa\", dijo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El Dr. Sacchetti se licenci\u00f3 en el Boston College y obtuvo un m\u00e1ster en la Universidad de Boston. Obtuvo su doctorado en osteopat\u00eda en el New England College of Osteopathic Medicine de Maine, y complet\u00f3 una residencia en neurolog\u00eda de adultos en el Rhode Island Hospital\/Brown University. Realiz\u00f3 una beca de neurolog\u00eda vascular en el New York-Presbyterian Hospital\/Weill Cornell Medical College de Nueva York. Natural de Braintree, vive en Barrington, Rhode Island, con su mujer y sus dos hijas.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":4431,"template":"","categories":[1233],"class_list":["post-18015","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-and-achievements"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dr. Daniel Sacchetti spearheading Southcoast Health\u2019s stroke treatment<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dr. Daniel Sacchetti aims to coordinate the efforts of neurologists and advanced care providers who diagnose and treat stroke victims.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/test-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/news\/southcoast-stroke-treatment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" 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