Stroke Program Medical Co-director
Telestroke Services for Healthcare Providers
Harborview Medical Center in Seattle offers urgent and emergency telestroke consultations to hospitals throughout the region. Learn more about our program.
Telestroke Services for Healthcare Providers
Harborview Medical Center in Seattle offers urgent and emergency telestroke consultations to hospitals throughout the region. Learn more about our program.
Around-the-clock access to stroke neurologists
If you don’t have on-call neurologists to help with acute stroke patients in your community, partnering with a telestroke provider like UW Medicine is the next best option.
We offer 24/7 telestroke care and referral pathways to hospitals across Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho (WWAMI), 27% of the U.S. If your local hospital is our partner and you are having a stroke, we will be there. As a Joint Commission-certified Comprehensive Stroke Center and Level I trauma center, Harborview Medical Center, and stroke-trained experts are equipped to care for people with complex strokes — both in person and with telehealth.
UW Medicine telestroke program services and features
When you have a patient with stroke-like symptoms, you can count on our board-certified stroke neurologists to help:
Ongoing collaboration with your team
We’re not just available during emergencies. As our partner, you can turn to us for:
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Care advice: reach out anytime with questions about ongoing care, such as when it’s safe to restart aspirin or enroll your patient in a stroke clinical trial.
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Provider education: You’ll have access to online lectures and teleconferences, annual nursing education and continuing medical education (CME) opportunities.
Extensive stroke care experience
The Comprehensive Stroke Center at Harborview Medical Center
Only certain hospitals can earn Comprehensive Stroke Center certification from the Joint Commission. It requires full integration of neurology, neurosurgery, endovascular, neurocritical care, and inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services. Research has shown that patients with complex strokes have better outcomes (with fewer complications) when treated at a Comprehensive Stroke Center like Harborview.
Our telestroke and onsite stroke care achievements during the last 12 months include the following:
Our telestroke team responded to more than 300 stroke calls each quarter.
We completed more than 1,300 telestroke remote consultations. Most of these remote patients received lifesaving therapy in their own communities.
In the last year at Harborview, we treated more than 900 patients with ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage and transient ischemic attack.
Stroke tests and treatments we offer
Our capabilities include advanced diagnostic services and a broad range of surgical procedures:
Treatments
- Thrombolytics
- Mechanical Thrombectomy
- Aneurysm clipping and coiling
- Carotid angioplasty and stenting
- Carotid endarterectomy
- Transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR)
- Craniotomy and craniectomy
- Neurorehabilitation
Tests
- Computerized tomography (CT) scan, CT Angiography (CTA), and CT perfusion (CTP)
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI, magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), vessel wall imaging
- Catheter angiography
- Carotid ultrasound
- Transcranial Doppler
- Echocardiography (TTE and TEE)
Meet our telestroke program leaders
David Tirschwell, MD, Neurologist
Arielle Davis, MD, Neurologist
Stroke Program Medical Co-director
Anna Kwak-Callen, MN, RN CCRN-K, CPHQ
Stroke Program Operations Manager
Kellie Sheehan, BSN, RN
Telestroke Clinical Operations Specialist