Journal article
Australian Clinical Consensus Guideline: The diagnosis and acute management of childhood stroke
TL Medley, C Miteff, I Andrews, T Ware, M Cheung, P Monagle, S Mandelstam, A Wray, C Pridmore, C Troedson, RC Dale, M Fahey, A Sinclair, P Walsh, B Stojanovski, MT Mackay
International Journal of Stroke | SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD | Published : 2019
Abstract
Stroke is among the top 10 causes of death in children and survivors carry resulting disabilities for decades, at substantial cost to themselves and their families. Children are not currently able to access reperfusion therapies, due to limited evidence supporting safety and efficacy and long diagnostic delays. The Australian Clinical Consensus Guideline for the Diagnosis and Acute Management of Childhood Stroke was developed to minimize unwarranted variations in care and document best evidence on the risk factors, etiologies, and conditions mimicking stroke that differ from adults. Clinical questions were formulated to inform systematic database searches from 2007 to 2017, limited to Englis..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The Murdoch Children's Research Institute gratefully acknowledges funding support from the Ian Potter Foundation.