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New SGH emergency and national neuroscience building slashes stroke treatment times

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In short

The 14,000-square-metre building houses acute medical care, advanced imaging, outpatient clinics, and Singapore's first emergency department-based angiography suite. This streamlined setup enables endovascular thrombectomy procedures to take place directly on site, cutting acute stroke treatment times from 130 minutes to 82 minutes. The expanded facility features 10 triage rooms, 12 resuscitation rooms, 53 critical care cubicles, and over 150 short-stay beds to handle high patient volumes. A 29-cubicle critical care zone can also be converted into a negative pressure space to prepare for future pandemics.

Key points

  • Direct access to an on-site angiography suite enables emergency teams to treat blocked bl…: Direct access to an on-site angiography suite enables emergency teams to treat blocked blood vessels without moving patients between hospital blocks.
  • The new facility includes pandemic readiness features with a dedicated 29-cubicle critica…: The new facility includes pandemic readiness features with a dedicated 29-cubicle critical care area capable of negative pressure conversion.
  • Community healthcare alternatives like telehealth and general practitioners continue to h…: Community healthcare alternatives like telehealth and general practitioners continue to help divert non-urgent patient traffic away from acute emergency rooms.

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- SGH’s new Emergency and NNI building cuts acute stroke treatment time from 130 minutes to 82 minutes. It co-locates care to speed diagnosis and EVT.

- The 12-storey, 14,000 sq m facility is six times larger than before. It has 10 triage rooms, 53 critical care cubicles, 12 resuscitation rooms, and over 150 short-stay beds.

- Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said time is brain, and AI now cuts scan time to six minutes. He also said longer waits can mean less serious cases, while alternative care has eased ED pressure.

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SINGAPORE – Patients suffering from acute strokes can now be assessed, scanned, and treated in as little as 82 minutes, down from 130 minutes, at the newly opened Singapore General Hospital (SGH) Emergency and National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) building.

The 12-storey facility designed to manage heavy patient volumes and complex medical crises and eliminate potentially severe hospital transit delays.

Officially opened by Minister for Health Ong Ye Kung on Oct 30, the 14,000 sq m facility is six times larger than its previous space in Block…

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