Nick Hopkins (Buffalo, USA) talks to BLearning Neuro at VEITH Symposium 2018 (13–17 November, New York, USA) about the DAWN trial, which showed that, in carefully selected acute ischaemic stroke patients, “intervention out to 24 hours is viable”.
“Stroke intervention is the next horizon in medicine,” says Hopkins, who also discusses the shortage of trained neurointerventionists who can perform stroke thrombectomy. “The only way we are going to solve this problem,” adds Hopkins, “is by training interventional cardiologists, interventional radiologists and vascular surgeon interventionists in outlying areas who can perform endovascular treatment for stroke ‘on the spot.’”
