Guidelines

2021 — Intravenous Thrombolysis
2019 — Mechanical Thrombectomy
2019 — Reversal of Oral Anticoagulants after ICH
2019 —Consensus Statements from the ESO-Karolinska Stroke Update Conference
2018 — Prehospital management
2017  — Cerebral venous thrombosis
2017 — Consensus Statements from the ESO-Karolinska Stroke Update Conference
2016 — Training Guideline for Endovascular Stroke Intervention
2014 — Intracerebral Hemorrhage
2013 — Subarachnoid Haemorrhage & Aneurysms
2019 — Consensus Statements from the ESO-Karolinska Stroke Update Conference
2018 — Glycaemia
2017 —  Post-stroke seizures and epilepsy
2017 —Consensus Statements from the ESO-Karolinska Stroke Update Conference
2016 — VTE prophylaxis
2015 — Temperature
2020 — Sleep & Stroke
2019  — Secondary prevention – Atrial fibrillation
2019 — Consensus Statements from the ESO-Karolinska Stroke Update Conference
2017 — Consensus Statements from the ESO-Karolinska Stroke Update Conference
2014  — Intracerebral Hemorrhage
2020 — Sleep & Stroke
2019 — Consensus Statements from the ESO-Karolinska Stroke Update Conference
2017  — Post-stroke seizures and epilepsy
2017 — Consensus Statements from the ESO-Karolinska Stroke Update Conference

2015    European Stroke Organisation (ESO) guidelines: a standard operating procedure

The European Stroke Organisation (ESO) Guidelines on Intravenous Thrombolysis (IVT) for Acute Ischaemic Stroke

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Guidelines in Development

  • Brain oedema management in acute Stroke
  • Carotid Stenosis
  • Dissection
  • Management of unruptured aneurysm
  • Management of hypertension in acute ischemic stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage
  • Secondary Prevention non-related to AF
  • Small Vessel Disease
  • Stroke & Dysphagia
  • TIA Management
  • PFO Treatment
  • Women & Stroke

ESO publishes two 
types of documents

  1. Full ESO Guideline Document with evidence-based 
recommendations and expert consensus statements 
(see criteria for the ECS in the table)
  2. Expedited recommendation in case at least one 
guideline-changing RCT is published

GUIDELINE
DOCUMENT

Evidence-based recommendation

  • GRADE methodology and ESO Guideline SOP
  • High-quality outcome
  • Comprehensive (detailed document available online)
  • Time-consuming process
  • Published in the ESJ

Expert Consensus Statement (ECS)

  • Only when not enough evidence to provide an evidence-based recommendation
  • Presented in the guideline document with the result of a majority vote

EXPEDITED
RECOMMENDATION
  • When at least one guideline-changing RCT is published
  • One main PICO question to be answered
  • Based on GRADE except that a formal systematic review is not mandatory
  • Quickly available on the ESO website / MAGICApp
  • Published in the ESJ

Guidelines published between 2003-2009

2009    Ischaemic Stroke Update 2009 – Dutch

2009    Thrombolytic therapy  (Abstract)

2008    Ischaemic Stroke (Slidekit) – Translations in Bulgarian, Chinese, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish

2003   Prophylaxis and Treatment – Information for doctors

PDF Flyers in English, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese

2003   Cerebrovascular Diseases

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