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SPOTLIGHT: ST. CATHERINE HOSPITAL BY DEBRA GRUSZECKI

RIGHT PLACE,

RIGHT TIME

Hospital's Elite Stroke Care Team works fast to save lives
Luis Romero's steady diet of
midnight shift work in a
Northwest Indiana scrap mill
and a rambunctious lifestyle as a teen
took its toll on his health three winters
ago. The crisis became his ultimate
wake-up call.
The warning bell sounded at 10 p.m.
on a blustery February night. Romero
had just driven away from his mother's
house in East Chicago.
"My vision went in the left eye, so I
decided to drive myself to the Emergency
department at St. Catherine Hospital," he
recalls. "By the time I got there, everything had turned completely white. I
could barely see."
Romero shuffled toward the entrance
and blacked out. Not only was he suffering from a stroke, but he also had an aortic dissection, a life-threatening tear in the
wall of the artery carrying blood out of
the heart. His next memory is waking up
four days later in the intensive care unit.
"I was lucky I woke up at all," he
recalls. Doctors told him later he had
only a 30 percent chance of survival.
Chief Nursing Officer Paula Swenson
says Romero was fortunate to be in the
right place at the right time.
Emergency Services physician Katrina
Mattingly, MD, with Luis Romero. Since
recovering from a stroke and life-threatening
heart condition, Romero has returned to
St. Catherine Hospital for a visit every year.

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