Multisociety Consensus Quality Improvement Revised Consensus Statement for Endovascular Therapy of Acute Ischemic Stroke

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From the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR), Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe (CIRSE), Canadian Interventional Radiology Association (CIRA), Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), European Society of Minimally Invasive Neurological Therapy (ESMINT), European Society of Neuroradiology (ESNR), European Stroke Organization (ESO), Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR), Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS), and World Stroke Organization (WSO) ABBREVIATIONS ASPECTS ¼ Alberta Stroke Program Early Computed Tomography Score, EVT ¼ endovascular therapy, mRS ¼ modified Rankin scale, mTICI ¼ modified thrombolysis in cerebral infarction, NIHSS ¼ National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, QI ¼ quality improvement, SAH ¼ subarachnoid hemorrhage, SICH ¼ symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage, SITS-MOST ¼ Safe Imple-mentation of Thrombolysis in Stroke Monitoring Study, TICI ¼ thrombolysis in cerebral infarction, TIMI ¼ thrombolysis in myocardial infarction, TPA ¼ tissue plasminogen activator