Community stories

With their first EMS Angels Award, Italy’s 118 Novara joins a community of EMS specialists dedicated to excellence in prehospital stroke care across Europe.

Can a little friendly competition advance the fight to improve stroke care in Malaysia? Find out what happened when three stroke teams from different hospitals went toe to toe in a Simulation Team Challenge.

Esther Redondo joined the Angels team in Spain in July 2022. Having experienced the impact of stroke in her own famiy, she welcomes the opportunity to help change outcomes for stroke patients. Here she shares highlights and insights from her first 100 days.

An inventive Angels consultant in Poland has pioneered a training exercise for nurses that has the potential to impact acute stroke treatment at their hospitals.

At a hospital in Rosario, Argentina, a patient who’d suffered a stroke during a cardiac procedure was treated in a record-breaking 10 minutes. Its head of neurology Dr Guadalupe Bruera explains how the stroke team at this hospital defies evidence of a quality gap in caring for in-hospital stroke.

This municipal hospital in central Romania had promised that they would put another pin on the map and become a stroke-treating hospital. Then things happened a lot faster than anyone ever imagined.