Tag: ASA
New research indicates sustained improvement in US stroke care over 20-year...
New research, published this month in the journal Stroke, has demonstrated the key role quality improvement programmes play in ensuring hospitals can adequately tackle the...
New AHA statement seeks to improve recognition and management of cerebral...
A new scientific statement from the American Heart Association (AHA) emphasises the need to boost patient and physician awareness of cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT),...
ASA seeks to ‘empower’ Hispanic-Latino communities with promotion of RÁPIDO acronym
To help “close the gap between knowledge and action”, the American Stroke Association (ASA) is launching a culturally relevant Spanish-language campaign named ‘Juntos Contra...
US and Chinese experts introduce new aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage guidelines
Expert groups from the USA and China have separately introduced new guidelines relating to the management of aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (aSAH). The updated guidelines—spearheaded...
New certifications aim to standardise and improve stroke care in Mexico
Hospital institutions in Mexico will have access to a single, comprehensive set of stroke certification services through a new collaboration between the Mexican stroke...
Behavioural interventions and more holistic approach signal “paradigm shift” in latest...
In May 2021, the American Heart Association (AHA)/American Stroke Association (ASA) updated one of its flagship guidelines—the secondary prevention of stroke guideline—for the first...
Time is brain: Travelling stroke team enables faster treatment and better...
In a pilot programme in New York City, USA, a mobile interventional stroke team (MIST) travelled directly to patients to perform emergency stroke surgery...
ASA highlights value of comprehensive, patient-centred primary care after stroke
In a new scientific statement entitled “Primary Care of Adult Patients After Stroke”, the American Stroke Association (ASA)—a division of the American Heart Association...
Prevention based on first stroke cause can reduce risk of subsequent...
Identifying the cause of a stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA)—sometimes called a “mini-stroke”—can lead to specific prevention strategies to reduce the risk of...
DEFUSE 3 shows favourable outcomes for late-window patients and triggers expanded...
The study results show that endovascular therapy, given alongside standard medical therapy, results in better functional outcome than standard medical therapy alone for ischaemic...
New ischaemic stroke guidelines widen mechanical thrombectomy window to 24 hours...
The American Heart Association and American Stroke Association released updated ischaemic stroke guidelines that were published in Stroke, and released during the International Stroke...
