Management of acute ischemic stroke in patients with COVID-19 infection: Insights from an international panel

Autor: Jahanzeb Liaqat, Kazunori Toyoda, Afshin Borhani-Haghighi, Adam Kobayashi, Camilo R Gomez, Fernando Góngora-Rivera, Liqun Jiao, Jun Lee, Mikael Mazighi, Erdem Gurkas, Yongjun Wang, Guven Uzun, Thorsten Steiner, Chung Y. Hsu, Fahmi Al-Senani, Rajsrinivas Parthasarathy, Jamary Oliveira-Filho, Muhammad Shah Miran, Marc Ribó, Alfonso Ciccone, Vishal Jani, Emrah Aytaç, Adnan I Qureshi, Foad Abd-Allah
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine
ISSN: 1532-8171
0735-6757
Popis: Objective To present guidance for clinicians caring for adult patients with acuteischemic stroke with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 infection. Methods The summary was prepared after review of systematic literature reviews,reference to previously published stroke guidelines, personal files, and expert opinionby members from 18 countries. Results The document includes practice implications for evaluation of stroke patientswith caution for stroke team members to avoid COVID-19 exposure, during clinicalevaluation and conduction of imaging and laboratory procedures with specialconsiderations of intravenous thrombolysis and mechanical thrombectomy in strokepatients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 infection. Results Conclusions—The summary is expected to guide clinicians caring for adult patientswith acute ischemic stroke who are suspected of, or confirmed, with COVID-19infection.
Databáze: OpenAIRE