Arkansas Hemorrhagic Stroke Tele‑Network

One in 50 people have a brain aneurysm. About 40% of people who have a ruptured brain aneurysm will die before receiving medical care.

At UAMS Health, our neurosurgeons offer a new pathway to state-of-the-art treatment for patients who suffer from brain aneurysms and other non-traumatic intracranial bleeding. For patients who present to the emergency room with signs of stroke, 15% to 20% will have intracranial hemorrhage requiring neurosurgical care.

As with the UAMS Institute for Digital Health & Innovation’s Stroke Program, the Arkansas Hemorrhagic Stroke Tele‑Network links emergency room doctors to specially trained experts 24 hours a day. The pathway is to provide timely transfer and access to treatment for the following:

• Aneurysms that bleed (subarachnoid hemorrhage)
• Other non-trauma-related hemorrhagic strokes or intracranial bleeds, including those caused by high blood pressure

There is a neurosurgery physician in the hospital 24 hours a day to initiate prompt treatment and prevent sequelae of brain bleeding.

Patients are evaluated promptly for either surgical repair in the operating room or angiography and endovascular treatment in the catheterization laboratory, a more recently available minimally invasive form of repair.

• Just one call to the UAMS Health Physician Call Center at 501-686-6080
• Speak directly to a specially trained expert
• 24 hours a day, seven days a week
• Arrange an immediate transfer