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A joint statement from the Neurointerventional Societies: our position on operator experience and training for stroke thrombectomy
  1. Italo Linfante1,
  2. Raul G Nogueira2,
  3. Osama O Zaidat3,
  4. Adam S Arthur4,
  5. Richard P Klucznik5,
  6. William J Mack6,
  7. Babu G Welch7,
  8. Adnan H Siddiqui8,
  9. J Mocco9
  1. 1 Baptist Cardiac and Vascular Institute, Miami, Florida, USA
  2. 2 Neurology and Interventional Neuroradiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  3. 3 Mercy Health St Vincent Hospital, Toledo, Ohio, USA
  4. 4 UT Dept Neurosurgery/Semmes-Murphey Clinic, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
  5. 5 Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA
  6. 6 Neurosurgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
  7. 7 Neurosurgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
  8. 8 Departments of Neurosurgery and Radiology and Toshiba Stroke Research Center, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA
  9. 9 The Mount Sinai Health System, New York City, New York, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr J Mocco, The Mount Sinai Health System, New York City, NY 10029, USA; j.mocco{at}mountsinai.org

https://doi.org/10.1136/neurintsurg-2019-015047

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    Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) is an emergency that requires rapid treatment by skilled practitioners in order to avoid severe disability or death. It is estimated that AIS accounts for up to 87% of all stroke-related cases worldwide. In the USA the incidence of AIS is approximately 750 000 patients annually, and this rate is expected to increase 25% in the next 20 years.1

    The last decade has witnessed remarkable progress in the treatment of this condition. In 2015, five multicenter prospective randomized clinical trials (RCTs) demonstrated that thrombectomy is overwhelmingly superior to medical management for patients with emergent large vessel occlusion.2–6 Shortly thereafter, in 2016, the Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology (SVIN) guideline writing committee published recommendations for appropriate hospital and individual requirements in order to demonstrate adequate expertise in thrombectomy.7 These recommendations were in part based on the Stroke Chain of Survival endorsed in the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association 2013 guidelines for the early management of patients with acute ischemic stroke.8 …

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