Professor Tim Kleinig fights for the everyday – every day.
As a globally-recognised neurologist and Head of the Stroke Unit at Royal Adelaide Hospital, Prof Kleinig saves the lives of people who present to emergency with otherwise-deadly strokes.
Time is of the essence for stroke, with any delay in treatment resulting in a very different outcome to patients’ recovery and disability post-stroke – that’s if they survive the stroke at the time.
And thanks to Prof Kleinig’s world-leading research, backed by The Hospital Research Foundation Group, he is trialling new treatments for stroke that can have remarkable recovery outcomes even if you miss the critical treatment window.
“There have been enormous advancements in stroke treatments in recent years – and the latest game changer is ‘endovascular thrombectomy’ that involves pulling the clot out directly from the affected artery in the brain.
“Thanks to The Hospital Research Foundation Group’s generous support, we have been trialling this procedure coupled with several new clot dissolving medications – to exceptional results.
“We’ve seen patients who participate in the trial make a complete recovery from something which was very likely to have been a fatal stroke otherwise.”
Now, these patients can spend everyday moments with their loved ones.
Thank you for supporting this life-changing research into stroke and stroke care.