SVIN’s Mission Thrombectomy 2020+ Initiative Announces Call to Action Goals

May 12, 2021—The Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology (SVIN) Mission Thrombectomy 2020+ Initiative (MT2020+) will announce the first annual World Stroke Thrombectomy Day at the Global MT Revolution Regional Conference on May 15, 2021. By designating this official day, MT2020+ plans to raise public awareness about thrombectomy surgery for the treatment of severe stroke and instill new global calls to action.

MT2020+ members from across the world will attend the 2-day Global MT Revolution Regional Conference. Regional committee leaders will present the progress made on thrombectomy capacity and access.

According to SVIN, the Mission Thrombectomy 2020 global health campaign was founded by the SVIN in 2016 to accelerate access to stroke thrombectomy surgery globally. The goal of MT2020+ is to coalesce global public health efforts with a goal to double access to thrombectomy for stroke caused by large vessel occlusion in the brain every 2 years, improve stroke care worldwide by increasing the rate of stroke thrombectomy for eligible patients from < 100,000 procedures today to 202,000 annually by 2020, and thereby reduce global stroke disability.

To achieve the goal of doubling the ratio of thrombectomies in each global region every 2 years, MT2020+ is issuing the following calls to action:

• Governments and health policymakers to allocate resources to build regional thrombectomy systems and implement regional emergency transportation protocols to triage eligible patients to thrombectomy capable hospitals
• Public to raise awareness about thrombectomy for severe large strokes
• Medical educators and organized medicine to rapidly increase the number of trained physicians in mechanical thrombectomy procedures

“We are very pleased to announce this annual global day that allows us to call on various stakeholders around the world to rapidly, equitably, and sustainably continue to improve access to thrombectomy for stroke in their regions,” commented Dileep Yavagal, MD, the MT2020+ Global Chair and Past-President of SVIN. “The first World Stroke Thrombectomy Day will be announced on May 15 when 22 countries will begin to report on the tremendous progress in thrombectomy access that has been made in their regions.”