The Nordic Stroke 2025 conference convened stroke specialists, neurologists, and allied health professionals from across the Nordic region to discuss advances in prevention, acute care, and rehabilitation. Reflecting the region’s collaborative spirit, this year’s meeting emphasised quality of care, stroke unit management, and the standardization of multidisciplinary care.
With an increasing focus on outcome assessment and quality benchmarking, the discussions highlighted how stroke unit care continues to underpin survival and recovery, remaining a critical first-line approach even in the era of reperfusion therapies.
In this Q&A, touchNEUROLOGY speaks with Dr Hanne Krarup Christensen about the key themes and notable findings shaping the future of stroke prevention and care.
Nordic Stroke is a regional meeting with strong multidisciplinary representation run by the Nordic Stroke Society. This year’s main themes focused on quality of care, stroke unit organization, and updates on acute treatment and both primary and secondary prevention. These discussions reflect the increasing emphasis on quality assessment, outcome control, and the need to modernize definitions of stroke unit care.
Even with widespread implementation of reperfusion strategies, stroke unit care remains central to reducing death and dependency after stroke. It provides proven benefits across all patient groups, with the greatest impact on survival. However, we now need clearer and more contemporary definitions that align with modern clinical practice.
Two presentations from Iceland stood out:
Prof. Marianne Klinke introduced her care bundle concept for stroke unit management, which supports a personalised and multidisciplinary approach within general neurology departments. This structure ensures that high-quality, specialised stroke care can be maintained even as healthcare systems move towards more integrated service models.
Dr Björn Þórarinsson explored modern stroke unit principles in the context of existing certifications, such as those from the European Stroke Organisation (ESO), highlighting the need for updated certification frameworks that reflect current practice and evolving standards of care.
The next Nordic Stroke Congress will be held in Tartu, Estonia, 15-17 September 2025.
This content has been developed independently by Touch Medical Media for touchNEUROLOGY. Views expressed are the speaker’s own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Touch Medical Media.
Editor: Katey Gabrysch, Editorial Director.
Disclosures: This short article was prepared by touchNEUROLOGY in collaboration with Hanne Krarup Christensen. The content was developed and edited by human editors. No fees or funding were associated with its publication. touchNEUROLOGY utilize AI as an editorial tool (ChatGPT (GPT-4o) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat).
Cite: Hanne Christensen. Nordic Stroke 2025: Advancing quality and multidisciplinary stroke care. touchNEUROLOGY. 07 October 2025.
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