Surviving Stroke: Young Woman's Life Saved by Quick Treatment.
Brad Coleman, a 36-year-old stroke victim, received quick and lifesaving treatment at McKay-Dee Hospital in northern Utah. He underwent a mechanical thrombectomy, a special emergency procedure that removed the clot in his brain that was causing the stroke and its symptoms. Due to a successful surgery, all his stroke symptoms were reversed. McKay-Dee Hospital recently became the first nationally certified thrombectomy-capable stroke center in Utah, qualifying the hospital for a specific protocol in which emergency technicians can bypass other hospitals and take patients directly to McKay-Dee for the lifesaving procedure.