Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.
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Canada
●Canadian Stroke Best Practice Recommendations – Secondary prevention of stroke practice guidelines, 7th edition update (2020)
●Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS): Position statement on imaging the term neonatal brain (2018)
●Canadian Stroke Best Practice Recommendations – Stroke rehabilitation practice guidelines, update 2015 (published 2016)
United States
●American Heart Association (AHA)/American Stroke Association (ASA): A scientific statement on endovascular treatment and thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke in patients with premorbid disability or dementia (2022)
●AHA/ASA: Guideline for the prevention of stroke in patients with stroke and transient ischemic attack (2021)
●American College of Radiology (ACR): Appropriateness Criteria on cerebrovascular disease-child (2020)
●American Society of Hematology (ASH): Guidelines for sickle cell disease – Prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cerebrovascular disease in children and adults (2020)
●AHA: A scientific statement on cardiovascular risk reduction in high-risk pediatric patients (2019)
●AHA/ASA: A scientific statement for the management of stroke in neonates and children (2019)
●ASH: Guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism – Treatment of pediatric venous thromboembolism (2018)
●Guidelines for urgent management of stroke in children (2016)
●AHA: A scientific statement on infective endocarditis in childhood, update (2015)
●AHA: A scientific statement on cardiovascular disease risk factors in youth with diabetes mellitus (2014)
●AHA/ASA: Guidelines for the primary prevention of stroke (2014)
●National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI): Evidence-based management of sickle cell disease – Expert panel report (2014)
●AHA: A scientific statement for prevention and treatment of thrombosis in pediatric and congenital heart disease (2013)
●AHA: A scientific statement on long-term cardiovascular toxicity in children, adolescents, and young adults who receive cancer therapy − Pathophysiology, course, monitoring, management, prevention, and research directions (2013)
●American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST): Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines on antithrombotic therapy in neonates and children, 9th edition (2012)
●Spontaneous occlusion of the circle of Willis in children − Pediatric moyamoya summary with proposed evidence-based practice guidelines (2012)
●AHA/ASA: A scientific statement for the diagnosis and management of cerebral venous thrombosis (2011)
●AHA: A scientific statement for noninvasive assessment of subclinical atherosclerosis in children and adolescents − Recommendations for standard assessment for clinical research (2009)
Europe
●European Stroke Organisation (ESO): Guideline directory
United Kingdom
●Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN): National clinical guideline for stroke for the UK and Ireland (2023)
●Association of Anaesthetists and the Neuro Anaesthesia and Critical Care Society (NACCS): Guidelines on the safe transfer of the brain-injured patient – Trauma and stroke (2019)
●Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH): Stroke in childhood – Clinical guideline for diagnosis, management and rehabilitation (2017)
●British Committee for Standards in Haematology (BCSH) and British Society of Haematology (BSH): Guideline on the investigation, management and prevention of venous thrombosis in children (2011)
Australia–New Zealand
●Victorian Subacute Childhood Stroke Advisory Committee: Guideline for the subacute management of childhood stroke (2019)
●Australian Childhood Stroke Advisory Committee (ACSAC): Guideline for the diagnosis and acute management of childhood stroke (2017)
Japan
●Guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of moyamoya disease (spontaneous occlusion of the circle of Willis) (2012)
