New robot coming soon in Beebe’s Healthcare Emergency Department

LEWES, Del.-Beebe’s Healthcare Emergency Department announced that they will be expanding their partnership with Thomas Jefferson Neuroscience Network, by adding a robotic teleconferencing unit.

The robot will be used to detect blood cots in the brain from a stroke.

47ABC was told as soon as a stroke is suspected the robot will be used to connect with Jefferson within seven minutes and then from there a neurologist from Jefferson can talk to the doctors and patient to determine if there is a clot and if they need to be transferred.

“It’s that emergent transfer for clot retrieval that is what makes this partnership so amazing, it’s not a large population of patients, but it is someone’s mom. So one patient is enough,” Mary Frances Suter, Executive Director of Cardiac Services, said.

The state of the art robot is free and is funded by a family who’s loved one suffered a stroke.

Beebe Healthcare will be launching this new robotic system after educating it’s staff on how to use it.