This article summarizes a Medtronic-sponsored webinar held on the 19th of March 2018 in Barcelona, Spain. This
webinar was moderated by Professor Jens Fiehler. In his introduction to the presentations given by the two speakers, Dr Alejandro Tomasello Weitz and Dr Marc Ribó Jacobi, Professor Fiehler reiterated the axiom familiar to all neurologists:that with a stroke, time lost is brain lost.