TY - JOUR T1 - Endovascular therapy of acute ischemic stroke: report of the Standards of Practice Committee of the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery JF - Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery JO - J NeuroIntervent Surg SP - 87 LP - 93 DO - 10.1136/neurintsurg-2011-010243 VL - 4 IS - 2 AU - K A Blackham AU - P M Meyers AU - T A Abruzzo AU - F C Alberquerque AU - D Fiorella AU - J Fraser AU - D Frei AU - C D Gandhi AU - D V Heck AU - J A Hirsch AU - D P Hsu AU - M Jayaraman AU - S Narayanan AU - C Prestigiacomo AU - J L Sunshine AU - on behalf of the Society for NeuroInterventional Surgery Y1 - 2012/03/01 UR - http://jnis.bmj.com/content/4/2/87.abstract N2 - Objective To summarize and classify the evidence for the use of endovascular techniques in the treatment of patients with acute ischemic stroke.Methods Recommendations previously published by the American Heart Association (AHA) (Guidelines for the early management of adults with ischemic stroke (Circulation 2007) and Scientific statement indications for the performance of intracranial endovascular neurointerventional procedures (Circulation 2009)) were vetted and used as a foundation for the current process. Building on this foundation, a critical review of the literature was performed to evaluate evidence supporting the endovascular treatment of acute ischemic stroke. The assessment was based on guidelines for evidence based medicine proposed by the Stroke Council of the AHA and the University of Oxford, Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (CEBM). Procedural safety, technical efficacy and impact on patient outcomes were specifically examined. ER -