St. Michael’s Hospital paves the way for remote robotic treatment of strokes | Unpublished
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Publication Date: November 14, 2025 - 08:06

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St. Michael’s Hospital paves the way for remote robotic treatment of strokes

November 14, 2025

A team at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto has successfully completed 10 brain angiograms using a robot controlled remotely by a neurosurgeon, paving the way to eventually providing critical stroke care to patients in northern Ontario.

A brain angiogram is a minimally invasive diagnostic procedure where doctors place a catheter in the femoral artery through the groin and thread it up to the brain, then inject contrast dye that allows the medical team to see any problems in the blood vessels with an X-ray.



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