Today- Barts goes 24/7 with its Mechanical Thrombectomy service - congratulations to all involved and great news for our stroke patients #BThrombectomy Barts Thrombectomy

We are delighted to announce that our #MechanicalThrombectomy service will be going 24/7 today! Removing clots from🧠, and for some, allowing patients to walk out of the hospital in 24 hours! Congratulations to all the #teams involved & fantastic news for our #stroke patients!

Congratulations team #MTRL delighted to hear this for all those patients that will benefit from disability saving MT at your centre. NHS England Barts Health Interventional Neuroradiology Barts Health Keep up the great work 🥳👏

Barts Health Interventional Neuroradiology Fantastic news for your patients, and well done on all your hard work in getting to this point Barts Health Interventional Neuroradiology BartsThrombectomy Sageet Amlani

The best speciality there is. Just saying. Come and join the kind, inclusive, exciting world of Stroke Medicine. @british_stroke Stroke Association

#ISDN NHS England will cover the whole pathway Audrey Bowen one of the 4 top priorities for the first year is a ‘needs related, not time based integrated community stroke service (ICSS)’. Prevention, reducing health inequalities & MT the other 3 just to be getting on with

Great to see it in action and making a difference - 3 yrs of hard slog from all involved - go team Barts

I have had the covid vaccine. Please have your vaccine when offered; for your sake; for others sake; for the greater good. #vaccine #covid BBC News - Covid: Fake news 'causing UK South Asians to reject jab' bbc.co.uk/news/uk-556664…

Great service from @RoyalLondonHosp Barts Health Interventional Neuroradiology paul bhogal & South East Coast Ambulance. NHS England Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) #NOSIP East Kent Hospitals in practice with a networked approach to #MT delivery, supported by rapid #strokeAI image transfer giving patients best chance of a life less disabled, despite #COVID

Proud to be able to offer free access to our award-winning Imperial Stroke Education programme (covering the UK stroke registrar training curriculum) for any interested healthcare professional. DM me or Joseph Kwan, MD 🇬🇧 for details on access. Imperial Stroke

Notes: 5x ↑ risk of Atrial Fibrillation after PFO closure compared to medically-treated patients; Highest risk within 45 days of procedure. BUT, does post-procedural AFib lead to stroke? unclear ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/ST… by Chen & Vincent Thijs

Record 5 #MT in 24 hrs last week. Great team effort including Mohamed Aggour paul bhogal Levansri Makalanda. Highlight was this case performed by our trainee. Unable to shift this ICA T occlusion (3 stent passes) until we used a new #nimbus stent by JNJMedDevices #innovation #LeaveNoELVOBehind

We are congratulating out trust #stroke teams for delivering cutting edge stroke care during a global pandemic. The @RoyalLondonHosp team adapted their environment due to Covid-19 , along with other urgent general, acute, trauma & emergency care teams 👉 orlo.uk/vqF5t

💯 #MT patients treated already in 2021 with BartsThrombectomy!! Helping stroke patients from North East London and beyond. Great 24/7 multidisciplinary team work across the board. Mohamed Aggour paul bhogal Levansri Makalanda Ken Wong @ImagingBarts

BASICS RCT for basilar occlusion upto 6 hours showed endovascular therapy and medical therapy did not differ significantly with respect to a favorable functional outcome. ⁦Imperial Stroke⁩ ⁦Neil Rane⁩ ⁦Joseph Kwan, MD 🇬🇧⁩ ⁦luciodanna⁩ nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

The new NHS England end to end stroke pathway has now been published. Exciting time for everyone working in stroke. Looking forward to working with our stakeholders to implement any transformation needed.

(1) The new SSNAP dataset will include some changes to the First 24hs of care section of the pro forma (Section 2). Check this Thread to know more about it! Dementia as a comorbidity and Brain imaging modality will be part of the new questions ssnap.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/artic…

New SSNAP dataset Section 4 will include new Therapy questions: Rehab assistant provision and tele-therapy. Find some useful guidance here 😀ssnap.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/artic… #ssnap @NHS @SPHES

Today’s the day! We’re proud to announce that the #CVDPREVENT 1st Annual Audit Report is now available to read, share, & digest! Access the report along with the Data & Improvement Tool: bit.ly/3oFhvIk which support strategic teams across ICSs & on a local footprint.