Rate of death from strokes is higher on weekends, research indicates

There is a good time to suffer a stroke, but a new study from the University of Virginia, USA, indicates that it is even worse if it occurs on a weekend. The "end end of week" has been highlighted by other studies for patients treated in hospitals because of heart attack, blood clots in the lungs, rupture of abdominal artery and spills of various. And new research indicates that this occurs in cases of intracerebral hemorrhage.

Evaluating more than 13.8 thousand patients treated at a hospital in 2004 because of cerebral hemorrhage, the researchers found that those treated in Saturdays or Sundays had 12% more likely to die in hospital than those who went to the hospital for the second to Friday. And the studies found differences in age, gender, income and medical insurance of the patients, and volume of care and location of the hospital.

The authors believe that the greatest number of deaths at the end of the week may be due to the reduction of medical staff in that period, the relative lack of experience of some of these plantões or the limitation of the availability of certain procedures that are carried out in "days." Therefore, experts suggest that institutions conducting audits to discover and correct the factors related to the final end of the week. "