Table 3.
Estimated number of additional stroke units and comprehensive stroke centres required to achieve three stroke units per one million inhabitants and one comprehensive stroke centre per one million inhabitants, and estimated number of additional treatments with intravenous thrombolysis and endovascular interventions if rates of 18% and 5%, respectively, are to be achieved.
| Country | No. of additional stroke units required | No. of additional comprehensive stroke centres required | No. of additional intravenous thrombolysis treatments per year(target rate 18%) | No. of additional endovascular treatments per year(target rate 5%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albania | 8 | 2 | 867 | 235 |
| Austria | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166 |
| Belarus | – | 8 | – | – |
| Belgium | – | 0 | 1294 | 278 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 7 | 3 | 2294 | 629 |
| Bulgaria | 0 | 3 | 4900 | 1409 |
| Croatia | 0 | 2 | 3350 | 984 |
| Czech Republic | 0 | 0 | 1758 | 481 |
| Denmark | 0 | 3 | 0 | 137 |
| Estonia | 0 | 0 | 135 | 79 |
| Finland | 0 | 1 | 683 | 227 |
| France | 53 | 27 | 7727 | 0 |
| Georgia | 10 | 4 | 1611 | 449 |
| Germany | 0 | 0 | 924 | 0 |
| Greece | 28 | 5 | 3768 | 1069 |
| Hungary | 0 | 4 | 3820 | 1352 |
| Iceland | 0 | 0 | 45 | 21 |
| Ireland | 0 | 3 | 316 | 30 |
| Israel | 14 | 0 | 134 | 71 |
| Italy | 1 | 10 | 11,586 | 3559 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 13 | 6 | 943 | 262 |
| Latvia | 0 | 0 | 1311 | 419 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 0 | 1558 | 351 |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0 | 96 | 32 |
| FYROM | 5 | 1 | 1009 | 295 |
| Malta | 0 | 0 | 57 | 0 |
| Montenegro | 2 | 1 | 217 | 66 |
| Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 85 |
| Northern Cyprus | 0 | 0 | – | – |
| Norway | 0 | 0 | 381 | 262 |
| Poland | 0 | 18 | 11,398 | 4795 |
| Portugal | 6 | 1 | 1761 | 65 |
| Republic of Moldova | 10 | 4 | 1682 | 460 |
| Romania | 49 | 18 | 14,064 | 3947 |
| Russia | 0 | 9 | 85,366a | 26,689a |
| Serbia | 11 | 3 | 5294 | 1572 |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0 | 1957 | 429 |
| Slovenia | 3 | 1 | 433 | 89 |
| Spain | 78 | 9 | 6985 | 922 |
| Sweden | 0 | 4 | 525 | 478 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 0 | 1321 | 19 |
| Turkey | 203 | 58 | 10,952 | 2997 |
| Ukraine | 124 | 41 | 28,663 | 8035 |
| United Kingdom | 0 | 37 | 5477 | 3902 |
| Total | 628 | 286 | 226,662 | 67,347 |
FYROM: former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
aAccording to the local experts, the incidence of ischemic stroke is overestimated.