Histórias da comunidade

Caught on video during ESOC 2023, Angels consultants Maxeen Murugan from South Africa and Inês Carvalho from Portugal talk about the importance of listening, the best advice they ever received, the impact one individual can have, and working from the heart.

Dr Ignacio Girolimini wanted to improve stroke care in his small town in Argentina. Dr Claudio Jiménez, who had transformed stroke care at his own hospital in Colombia, became his mentor. This is their story.

How different is being an Angels consultant in Slovakia from being an Angels consultant in South Africa? What challenges do they face and what do they have in common? What is the best advice they have received, and when did they cry? Watch and listen to a conversation between Diana Urbáni from Slovakia and Bernise Schubert from South Africa, recorded at ESOC 2023.

Quality monitoring breathed new life into this emergency nurse’s career and catapulted two EMS centres in Tuscany onto the international awards stage. The good news is, Cristina Riganti is not done learning and growing.

Here you can read reports received by the Emergency Medical Care and Disaster Centre of Kharkiv Oblast in eastern Ukraine between 26 Abril 2022 and 19 Julho 2023. In each case, paramedics attend to a patient with suspected acute stroke while the war continues around them.

Battling to reduce their on-scene time when attending to stroke, Madrid’s SUMMA 112 undertook research about the impact of prenotification management in their complex city. The results yielded insights about old problems – and suggested new solutions.