Multisociety Consensus Quality Improvement Revised Consensus Statement for Endovascular Therapy of Acute Ischemic Stroke

Endovascular therapy (EVT) for acute ischemic stroke in selected patients has recently been proven effective in several clinical trials, and the widespread adoption of thrombectomy into routine clinical practice has begun. However, these acute stroke services are resource-intensive, including advanced cerebral imaging and highly trained multidisciplinary hospital teams rapidly responding to emergency activation. Despite the previous acceptance of intravenous fibrinolysis for acute ischemic stroke and the development of designated stroke centers (1), ischemic stroke remains a leading cause of adult death and disability (2).

Source: Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology : JVIR - February 23, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: David Sacks, Blaise Baxter, Bruce C.V. Campbell, Jeffrey S. Carpenter, Christophe Cognard, Diederik Dippel, Muneer Eesa, Urs Fischer, Klaus Hausegger, Joshua A. Hirsch, Muhammad Shazam Hussain, Olav Jansen, Mahesh V. Jayaraman, Alexander A. Khalessi, Brya Tags: Standards of Practice Source Type: research