It's been a year since we launched our Saving Brains campaign and thrombectomy teams across the country have worked tirelessly to improve access but still only 3.3% of patients receive it. Thousands of eligible patients are still missing out on this game-changing treatment. 6,903 in the last year alone. We need you to contact your MP today and ask them attend our thrombectomy drop-in session in Parliament on the 17th July. We’ve put together a template so it couldn’t be easier to tell them that

Would thrombectomy benefit patients with medium-sized or distal vessel occlusion stroke? NEJM Editorial Fellow Sarah Gorey, MB, breaks down the ESCAPE-MeVO and DISTAL clinical trials. 📖 Further reading: ESCAPE-MeVO trial: https://nej.md/40LTUaL DISTAL trial: https://nej.md/4jYWV0z | The New England Journal of Medicine

On World Thrombectomy Day, Philip Annett, a Stroke Survivor, describes his recovery from a clot in the brain, which was removed by thrombectomy. Here we also see digital images of changes in blood flow to the brain post-surgery., explained by Laura Richardson, Interventional Radiology Lead Radiographer Lead in Belfast Trust. | Belfast Health and Social Care Trust

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