• Adnan I Qureshi, Foad Abd-Allah, Fahmi Al-Senani, Emrah Aytac, Afshin Borhani-Haghighi, Alfonso Ciccone, Camilo R Gomez, Erdem Gurkas, Chung Y Hsu, Vishal Jani, Liqun Jiao, Adam Kobayashi, Jun Lee, Jahanzeb Liaqat, Mikael Mazighi, Rajsrinivas Parthasarathy, Muhammad Shah Miran, Thorsten Steiner, Kazunori Toyoda, Marc Ribo, Fernando Gongora-Rivera, Jamary Oliveira-Filho, Guven Uzun, and Yongjun Wang.
• Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Institute and Department of Neurology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
• Am J Emerg Med. 2020 Jul 1; 38 (7): 1548.e51548.e71548.e5-1548.e7.

ObjectiveTo present guidance for clinicians caring for adult patients with acuteischemic stroke with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 infection.MethodsThe summary was prepared after review of systematic literature reviews,reference to previously published stroke guidelines, personal files, and expert opinionby members from 18 countries.ResultsThe document includes practice implications for evaluation of stroke patientswith caution for stroke team members to avoid COVID-19 exposure, during clinicalevaluation and conduction of imaging and laboratory procedures with specialconsiderations of intravenous thrombolysis and mechanical thrombectomy in strokepatients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 infection.ResultsConclusions-The summary is expected to guide clinicians caring for adult patientswith acute ischemic stroke who are suspected of, or confirmed, with COVID-19infection.Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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