O-002 developing an interventional stroke service: improving clinical outcomes and reducing cost and delivering great cost saving benefits to health economy

ConclusionMechanical Thrombectomy has shown benefit in improving clinical outcomes with significant cost saving benefit to our institution and the community care. If the cost saving benefits is extrapolated to the stroke population of the United Kingdom or any other western country with a similar healthcare structure, this will lead to major savings to the healthcare economy. For this to materialize, there needs to a larger government initiative to streamline stroke pathways and provide adequate funding to develop this service uniformly across the country.DisclosuresS. Nayak: None.
Source: Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery - Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Tags: SNIS 12th Annual Meeting Oral Abstracts Source Type: research