STROKE CARE

Through a partnerhsip with UofL Health Care, Frankfort Regional Medical Center provides a full range of neuro care, from primary treatment through inpatient rehabilitation.  Our emergency department is able to provide neurological treatment for stroke within minutes of a patient's arrival to speed care and save lives. The system is designed to diagnose a stroke and begin treatment quickly - saving precious time and, therefore, brain.

Stroke - Definition, Causes, Risk Factors, Symptoms & Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention

The network provides the highly specialized expertise and support resources of the UofL medical faculty via a remote controlled robot. The ‘anytime anywhere patient care' network is designed as a partnership with other hospitals to create better diagnoses and allow patients to remain in their regions when appropriate. If a transfer is recommended, the network offers easy access to technologies, specialist and leading edge treatments available at University Hospital.

The RP-7^TM Robot (invented, designed & manufactured by InTouch Health, Santa Barbara, California) through the utilization of a secured wireless, broadband, internet connection, can provide physician care to patients in another location.  Within moments of a request for a medical consultation, a UofL Health Care physician, seated at a computer control station (either at home, office, airport terminal, or anywhere in the world that has a wireless connection) connects via the Internet to the RP-7 Robot located in the partner hospital's Emergency Room to consult on the patient.

Through the robot (which stands 5 feet 6 inches tall), a doctor can interact and converse with a patient, patient's family, physician or nurse through a live, two-way audio and video.  Using a joystick, the camera and the guidance of 360-degree infrared sensors, the physician can maneuver the robot through the hospital to a patient's bedside and move the robot's head to view vital signs on monitors and charts.  The physician drives the robot through remote access, and the robot is almost self sufficient; the only thing it needs assistance with is plugging in to recharge the robot's battery.