Brian L. Hoh

TL;DR: These guidelines supersede the prior 2007 guidelines and 2009 updates and support the overarching concept of stroke systems of care and detail aspects of stroke care from patient recognition; emergency medical services activation, transport, and triage; through the initial hours in the emergency department and stroke unit.

TL;DR: These guidelines detail prehospital care, urgent and emergency evaluation and treatment with intravenous and intra-arterial therapies, and in-hospital management, including secondary prevention measures that are appropriately instituted within the first 2 weeks.

TL;DR: Evidence-based guidelines are presented for the care of patients presenting with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage and offer a framework for goal-directed treatment of the patient with aSAH.

TL;DR: In this article, a focused update of the current recommendations for the endovascular treatment of acute ischemic stroke is provided, where the recommendations made here supersede those of previous guidelines when there is overlap.

TL;DR: The Stroke Council of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association convened a writing group to develop an expert consensus document for an updated definition of stroke for the 21st century that incorporates clinical and tissue criteria and can be incorporated into practice, research, and assessments of the public health.