AHA/ASA Issues New Guidelines for Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke

The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association has released new guidelines on the early management of acute ischemic stroke. The document appears online and will run in the March issue of Stroke. The American Academy of Neurology “affirms the value of this guideline as an educational tool for neurologists,” and it is further endorsed by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.

“There’s no revolutionary change in these guidelines for us, considering what we published back in 2007,” Edward Jauch, MD, lead author of the guidelines and director of the Division of Emergency Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, told Medscape Medical News. For more information, click here to read the full release.