Abstract
Mihara Memorial Hospital is one of main stroke centers in Gunma prefecture. We have been continuing three medical activities to advance regional stroke emergency medical system. The activities were as follows: (1) develop non-invasive imaging system to improve outcome in patients with acute stroke (Mihara MR stroke protocol), (2) hold stroke simulation training courses such as PSLS and ISLS courses to work for the qualitative improvement in the medical staff, and (3) reinforce prefectural stroke medical system through the activities of Gunma branch of Japan Stroke Association and Gunma Stroke Emergency Network (GSEN: former's task force)
When the above mentioned activities began to go in orbit, the east-Japan great earthquake occurred on March 11. The planned region-specific outage carried out forcibly right immediately after the earthquake.
Most regional stroke centers could not do diagnostic imaging during the outage. It has possibility that regional stroke emergency medical system failed due to the planned region-specific outage. All the relations that it was cultivated through the three medical activities were used, and ambulance transported-patient with acute stroke reception was planned.
We will report the outline of Mihara MRI stroke protocol and the countermeasure against the outage to protect regional stroke emergency medical system.
