So, what will the future bring? Will there be even newer techniques? Professor Hacke described that the future of stroke care will significantly be improved through AI.
But further he highlighted, that we already have all the knowledge to treat a stroke with a good outcome – but still only 10% of all hospitals world-wide are “stroke ready”. If a stroke patient in a good time window is treated with thrombolysis and thrombectomy, nearly every second patient will have a life after stroke with nearly no deficits at all – keep that in mind!
And what do you need to become a stroke-ready hospital? It’s not more than a CT scanner and a trained physician. And everyone can become a stroke-trained physician and even the resident should feel confident enough to give thrombolysis!!!
Emphasizing that stroke care is not restricted to specialists, but stroke care is possible for every doctor was so encouraging for all of us.