European Stroke Initiative (EUSI) Recommendations for Stroke Management - The European Stroke Initiative Writing Committee

The European Stroke Initiative (EUSI) is the common body of stroke-related activities within the European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS), the European Neurological Society (ENS) and the European Stroke Council (E SC). The Executive committee of the EUSI has authorized the writing committ ee of the EUSI to create recommendations for stroke management covering all areas of stroke treatment. The recommendations are listed according to lev els of evidence pre-specified and modified according to several proposals i n the literature. The recommendations have been approved by the executive c ommittees of the EUSI, the ESC, the EFNS and the ENS. They are called recom mendations rather than guidelines in order to underline the large amount of individual decision making due to the fact that for many important questio ns, no data of high evidence level is available. The EUSI plans to review a nd update the recommendations on a regular basis.