Monitored Anesthesia Care by Sedation-Trained Providers in Acute Stroke Thrombectomy

Background: Mechanical thrombectomy (MT) for ischemic stroke can be performed under local anesthesia (LA), conscious sedation (CS), or general anesthesia (GA). The need for monitoring by anesthesia providers may be resource intensive. We sought to determine differences in outcomes of MT when sedatio...

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Main Authors: Diana E. Slawski, Hisham Salahuddin, Linda Saju, Julie Shawver, Andrea Korsnack, Gretchen Tietjen, Thomas J. Papadimos, Alicia C. Castonguay, Vieh Kung, Richard Burgess, Syed F. Zaidi, Mouhammad A. Jumaa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fneur.2019.00296/full