Tag: Society of Neurointerventional surgery
NVQI Quality Outcomes Database celebrates 25,000-procedure milestone
The Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery’s (SNIS) Patient Safety Organization (PSO)—in partnership with the NeuroPoint Alliance (NPA)—has announced that the NeuroVascular Quality Initiative Quality Outcomes...
Johanna T Fifi named president for Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery
Johanna T Fifi, an interventional neurologist at Mount Sinai Hospital (New York, USA), has been named the 2024–2025 president of the Society of NeuroInterventional...
SNIS acknowledges “major shift” in chronic SDH treatment following new trial...
In an official statement, the Society of Neurolnterventional Surgery (SNIS) has acknowledged middle meningeal artery (MMA) embolisation as a beneficial adjunctive treatment for chronic...
Mahesh Jayaraman becomes 28th president of the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery
Mahesh Jayaraman, an interventional neuroradiologist at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, USA—who has led national efforts to improve stroke systems of care in the...
Massachusetts’ stroke triage updates will save lives and reduce disability, says...
Massachusetts patients experiencing stroke could soon have access to refined treatment, triage and transport protocols based on a provision in the US state’s new...
J Mocco
As president of the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS), endovascular neurosurgeon J Mocco (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA) has...
SNIS: Physicians “should not have to choose” between family life and...
The Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS) has released a position statement advocating pregnancy and parental leave policies in neurointerventional surgery, also voicing support for...
J Mocco becomes 27th Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery president
J Mocco, an endovascular neurosurgeon at Mount Sinai in New York City, USA has been named the 2022 president of the Society of NeuroInterventional...
Robotics, AI and other innovations in stroke and aneurysm care on...
Specialists from around the world will gather at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery's (SNIS) 19th annual meeting (25–29 July, Toronto, Canada) next week to discuss...
Michael Chen
Michael Chen—a neurointerventionist and professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Radiology at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, USA—speaks to NeuroNews to provide insight on...
World Stroke Day 2021: Get Ahead of Stroke campaign pushes for...
On World Stroke Day—29 October 2021—physicians from the Get Ahead of Stroke campaign are urging lawmakers to update triage and transport protocols. They are...
North Carolina updates stroke triage and transport protocol
North Carolina has updated its emergency stroke care protocol—a move applauded by the Get Ahead of Stroke campaign. The protocol, which went into effect...
Michael Chen becomes 26th president of SNIS
Michael Chen, a neurointerventionist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, USA, has been named the president of the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS)...
Gender disparity in comprehensive stroke centre routing highlighted at SNIS
Women may be less likely than men to be sent to a comprehensive, or “Level 1”, stroke centre for emergent large vessel occlusion (ELVO)...
SNIS 2021: Remote stroke interventions raise several unique ethical challenges
At the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery’s 18th annual meeting (SNIS; July 26–29 2021, Colorado Springs, USA and virtual), Jeffrey Saver, professor of Neurology at...
Using new-generation CB-CT imaging tests may shorten time to surgery for...
Using a different type of computed tomography (CT) scan may reduce the time to essential surgery for patients with the deadliest kind of strokes—emergent...
Research shows new surgical technology may help reduce brain aneurysm regrowth
A new tool for treating brain aneurysms may protect artery blood flow during surgery and reduce the risk of aneurysm regrowth, according to a...
Black stroke patients undergo neuroendovascular surgery less often than white patients,...
Black patients with stroke are less likely than white patients to undergo a potentially lifesaving, minimally-invasive thrombectomy procedure to remove blood clots from arteries...
Race among factors that predict how quickly patients get to stroke...
Race, in combination with other factors, predicted how quickly individuals with stroke got to care centres to receive necessary neuroendovascular surgery, including thrombectomy, according...
Cerenovus to unveil new data and showcase stroke care innovations at...
Cerenovus, a neurovascular firm that forms part of The Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, will showcase its latest innovations in stroke care at...
International neurointerventional societies outline new criteria for facilities that treat stroke
Thirteen neurointerventional societies have released new guidelines outlining the criteria for Level 1, 2 and 3 stroke centres that provide acute ischemic stroke interventions...
