ESO Guideline Directory

Latest ESO Guidelines

Endarterectomy and Stenting for Carotid Artery Stenosis

Management of Space-Occupying Brain Infarction

Blood Pressure Management in Acute Ischaemic Stroke and Intracerebral Haemorrhage

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Guidelines

Prevention and Management of complications

2021 — ESO and EAN joint Guidelines on post-stroke cognitive impairment

2021 — ESO and European Society for Swallowing Disorders Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Post-Stroke Dysphagia

2021 — Covert Small Vessel Disease

2021 — Endarterectomy and Stenting for Carotid Artery Stenosis

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

Secondary Prevention

2021 — Short-term dual antiplatelet therapy early after minor stroke and high-risk TIA

2020 —Sleep and 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

Rehabilitation and long-term consequences of stroke

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

Guidelines in Development

Women & Stroke
Management of unruptured aneurysm
Secondary Prevention after stroke
Intracranial atherosclerosis
Mobile Stroke Unit Care
PFO Management
“Update” on the Intracerebral Hemorrhage Guideline
Intracranial Atherosclerosis
Screening Atrial Fibrilation
Expidited recommendation on Direct Thrombectomy
Rehabilitation after stroke
Moya Moya
Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion

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Full ESO Guideline Document with evidence-based recommendations and expert consensus statements (for characteristics see table below)
Expedited recommendation in instances where there is at least one published guideline-changing RCT

GUIDELINE
DOCUMENT

Evidence-based recommendation

Uses GRADE methodology
Follows ESO Guideline SOP
Provides high-quality outcome
Offers detailed document (available online)
Entails time-consuming process
Is published in the ESJ

Expert Consensus Statement (ECS)

Selected format if there is insufficient evidence to provide an evidence-based recommendation
Presented in the guideline document with the result of a majority vote