Uploaded May 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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After a stroke, the clock starts ticking. Hours, even minutes, in delayed medical attention can change a patient’s life. Traditional thinking says that a part of the brain starved of blood for five minutes will die, but developments have shown that everyone responds differently to a stroke and the length of progression time differs by hours, even days in some cases. In this episode, Washington University neurosurgeons at Barnes-Jewish Hospital explain how treatment technologies, surgeries, and medications are evolving to keep up with these newfound opportunities.

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