Faster stroke treatment.
Improve outcomes.

When it comes to acute stroke, everyone deserves the best care. Today, more patients can benefit from mechanical thrombectomy through changed guidelines, which widen the time window for endovascular treatment.¹

Faster stroke treatment.
Improve outcomes.

Why Direct to Angio Suite?

At Philips, our goal is to help stroke centers shorten door to re-perfusion times for ischemic stroke by optimizing workflow and protocols, inspired by established STEMI re-perfusion treatment.²

To achieve this, we are working with leading stroke centers on the development of innovative solutions aimed at further improving image quality, while enhancing workflows to shorten re-perfusion treatment times after ischemic stroke.

Combined, these factors offer great potential for stroke centers to treat more people, faster, improving clinical outcomes.

That’s health with no bounds.

The Direct to Angio Suite workflow at a glance

Direct to Angio Suite – a one-stop stroke shop

The Direct to Angio Suite workflow provides valuable, time-saving support for transfer and direct patients who arrive at the comprehensive stroke center (CSC).

Time to reperfusion is fundamental in reducing morbidity and mortality in acute stroke.^4,5In patients presenting directly to an endovascular-capable center, emphasis has now been placed on fast door-to-imaging times and fast imaging to groin access times. Patients who initially present to an external facility face additional sources of delay with prolonged door in-door out times, transport times, and additional testing at the endovascular-capable center hospital.⁶

Direct to Angio Suite workflows allow for comprehensive stroke diagnosis to be performed directly in the neuro angio suite. This provides valuable, time-saving support for critical patients in acute need of mechanical thrombectomy therapy.

Significant advances in technology mean that we are now able to identify, plan and treat ischemic stroke patients in the angiography suite, without the need for a separate CT or MR scan."

Raul Nogueira at LINNC 2019

Let's think simpler - the Direct to Angio Paradigm

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Stroke diagnosis

Stroke diagnosis

Comprohensive stroke diagnosis based on XperCT

Non-contrast XperCT aids detection of early ischemic changes and supports finding hemorrhages. Early phase contrast enhanced XperCT helps to identify the proximal end of occlusions. Late phase contrast enhanced XperCT supports detection of collaterals due to delayed filling of pial artery network.

Soft tissue setting

Maximum Intensity Projection

Non contrast XperCT

Early phase contrast enhanced XperCT

Late phase contrast enhanced XperCT

Image courtesy of Dr. Vitor Mendes Pereira; Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, CAN.
Multiphase XperCT imaging of a patient with a right MCA large vessel occlusion.

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Why WE TRUST in Direct to Angio?

Philips has a depth of perspective across image guided therapy and the way we treat stroke patients’ clinical processes, and this expertise can help break the boundaries standing in the way of organizing stroke care around the patient.

A multicenter randomized study ‘Workflow Evaluation: Towards Rigorous Undelayed Stroke Treatment’ (WE-TRUST) is currently being set up to investigate the potential improvement in clinical outcomes for acute stroke patients with emergent large vessel occlusions. This demonstrates Philips’ on-going commitment to improving acute stroke care.

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Advancing acute stroke care

Advancing acute stroke care

Philips Neurosuite in action at NEURI Bicêtre, Paris, France

Advancing acute stroke care

At Philips, we believe that when it comes to acute stroke care, everyone deserves the best care. Our innovative Neuro suite is already delivering advancements in interventional neuroradiology, such as our industry-leading CT-like XperCT, which provides excellent imaging quality to assist interventional neuroradiologists with diagnosis and treatment.

We would like to see even more patients receive the care they need, especially with time being a critical aspect in the treatment of acute strokes.

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Comprohensive stroke diagnosis based on XperCT

Non-contrast XperCT aids detection of early ischemic changes and supports finding hemorrhages. Early phase contrast enhanced XperCT helps to identify the proximal end of occlusions. Late phase contrast enhanced XperCT supports detection of collaterals due to delayed filling of pial artery network.

Soft tissue setting

Maximum Intensity Projection

Non contrast XperCT

Early phase contrast enhanced XperCT

Late phase contrast enhanced XperCT

Image courtesy of Dr. Vitor Mendes Pereira; Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, CAN.
Multiphase XperCT imaging of a patient with a right MCA large vessel occlusion.
Trends shaping the stroke market

Trends shaping the stroke market

Trends shaping the stroke market

Stroke care and treatment is a major challenge for healthcare providers across the globe. In many cases, particularly for patients who have experienced an acute stroke, ‘Time is Brain’ – meaning that the right treatment at the right time could potentially lead to enhanced patient outcomes.

Source: World Stroke Organization (https://www.world-stroke.org)

Trends shaping the stroke market

Stroke care and treatment is a major challenge for healthcare providers across the globe. In many cases, particularly for patients who have experienced an acute stroke, ‘Time is Brain’ – meaning that the right treatment at the right time could potentially lead to enhanced patient outcomes.

Stroke is the leading cause of disability, worldwide

~35
million

global stroke prevalence

2nd
leading cause of death

2 in 1000

annual globe incidence

1 in 200
people worldwide are stroke survivors

Source: World Stroke Organization (https://www.world-stroke.org)

Comprohensive stroke diagnosis based on XperCT

Non-contrast XperCT aids detection of early ischemic changes and supports finding hemorrhages. Early phase contrast enhanced XperCT helps to identify the proximal end of occlusions. Late phase contrast enhanced XperCT supports detection of collaterals due to delayed filling of pial artery network.

Soft tissue setting

Maximum Intensity Projection

Non contrast XperCT

Early phase contrast enhanced XperCT

Late phase contrast enhanced XperCT

Image courtesy of Dr. Vitor Mendes Pereira; Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, CAN.
Multiphase XperCT imaging of a patient with a right MCA large vessel occlusion.

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¹ Mokin M, Ansari SA, McTaggart RA, Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery, et al. Indications for thrombectomy in acute ischemic stroke from emergent large vessel occlusion (ELVO): report of the SNIS Standards and Guidelines Committee, Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery 2019;11:215-220.

² Borja I, Stefan J, Stefan A, et al., ESC Scientific Document Group, 2017 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation. European Heart Journal, Volume 39, Issue 2, 07 January 2018, Pages 119–177, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehx393

³ This presentation contains the first clinical results and experience of using investigational XperCT technology. This XperCT technology is considered work in progress and is not CE marked and not available for sale.

⁴ Mendez B. et al. 2018. Direct Transfer to Angio-Suite to Reduce Workflow Times and Increase Favorable Clinical Outcome. DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.118.021989

⁵ Saver J et al., 2016 Sep 27;316(12):1279-88. doi: 10.1001/jama.2016.13647.

⁶ Jadhav AP, et al. Stroke. 2017;48:1884-1889

Faster stroke treatment. Improve outcomes.