Effect of general anaesthesia on functional outcome in patients with anterior circulation ischaemic stroke having endovascular thrombectomy versus standard care: a meta-analysis of individual patient data

Publication date: January 2018 Source:The Lancet Neurology, Volume 17, Issue 1 Author(s): Bruce C V Campbell, Wim H van Zwam, Mayank Goyal, Bijoy K Menon, Diederik W J Dippel, Andrew M Demchuk, Serge Bracard, Philip White, Antoni Dávalos, Charles B L M Majoie, Aad van der Lugt, Gary A Ford, Natalia Pérez de la Ossa, Michael Kelly, Romain Bourcier, Geoffrey A Donnan, Yvo B W E M Roos, Oh Young Bang, Raul G Nogueira, Thomas G Devlin, Lucie A van den Berg, Frédéric Clarençon, Paul Burns, Jeffrey Carpenter, Olvert A Berkhemer, Dileep R Yavagal, Vitor Mendes Pereira, Xavier Ducrocq, Anand Dixit, Helena Quesada, Jonathan Epstein, Stephen M Davis, Olav Jansen, Marta Rubiera, Xabier Urra, Emilien Micard, Hester F Lingsma, Olivier Naggara, Scott Brown, Francis Guillemin, Keith W Muir, Robert J van Oostenbrugge, Jeffrey L Saver, Tudor G Jovin, Michael D Hill, Peter J Mitchell Background General anaesthesia (GA) during endovascular thrombectomy has been associated with worse patient outcomes in observational studies compared with patients treated without GA. We assessed functional outcome in ischaemic stroke patients with large vessel anterior circulation occlusion undergoing endovascular thrombectomy under GA, versus thrombectomy not under GA (with or without sedation) versus standard care (ie, no thrombectomy), stratified by the use of GA versus standard care. Methods For this meta-analysis, patient-level data were pooled from all ...
Source: The Lancet Neurology - Category: Neurology Source Type: research