AHA/ASA expands treatment window for percutaneous thrombectomy window to 24 hours in a newly released guideline at International Stroke Conference. The recommendation was based on DAWN & DEFUSE 3 trials. Moreover, guidelines also recommended patients who are candidates for carotid endarterectomy to be evaluated in 24 hours and treatment in 7 days. I suspect that these updates will see rise in eligible patient population by 20%. This may also have other significant practice impacts by enabling more interventionalists to become trained and offer this therapy.
This year at C3, we have specifically designed a session on Interventional Stroke Treatment: How to Start and Build a Stroke Program. We will discuss these new guidelines and much more during this session.
You don’t want to miss out on this year at C3 – taking place June 17-20, 2018.
Powers WJ, et al “2018 Guidelines for the early management of patients with acute ischemic stroke” Stroke 2018; DOI: 10.1161/STR.0000000000000158. http://stroke.ahajournals.org/content/early/2018/01/23/STR.0000000000000158