Stroke patients could be saved from the impact of paralytic attack if they were brought with in four and a half hours for the removal of clot using Mechanical Thrombectomy, a procedure which required special expertise of an interventional radiologist.
Jude Rozario Vinoth, head of the emergency division of the Apollo Hospital here, where the facitlity is available, said in one minute 1.9 million neurons would die following Cerebro Vascular accident. Early and initial treatment is very important. "You require the help of a team of experts for this including neurologist, consultant in emergency medicine and interventional radiologist.
The procedure is similar to treating the heart attack patients for whom blocks are removed. By this system the blocks in the brain vessel were removed, he said.
