Every year, more than 12 million people suffer from strokes. With 6.5 million dead and many left with permanent disability, it is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide.

In this episode, learn about the stroke pathway and secondary stroke risk as well as the underlying diseases that are connected to stroke and how they can be identified and treated.

Host Wiebke Plenkers, product line head for ON THE SPOT, Siemens Healthineers global mobile CT solutions, is joined by Mira Katan, MD, head of Stroke Unit and deputy head of Acute Neurology at University Hospital Basel in Switzerland and Carlos Molina, MD, head of Neurology Section and director of Stroke Unit at Barcelona’s Vall d’Hebron Research Institute.

00:00 Improving pathways and prevention in stroke care
01:11 The stroke pathway and secondary stroke
06:36 Stroke types and diagnosis
09:41 Secondary stroke risk
13:25 Prevention and treatment of underlying causes
17:09 Imagining the future
20:12 Conclusion