Stroke • Vol 56 • No 5
General Anesthesia Versus Conscious Sedation in Thrombectomy Patients With Low NIHSS Anterior Circulation Stroke
March 2025 • Christian Heitkamp, Fabian Flottmann, Tobias D. Faizy, Alexander Heitkamp, Christian Thaler, Vincent Geest, Maximilian Schell, Helge Kniep, Gabriel B…
BACKGROUND: The optimal anesthetic approach for patients with acute ischemic stroke with large vessel occlusion but low National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale receiving mechanical thrombectomy remains unclear. We aimed to evaluate the association of anesthetic strategies with procedural and clinical outcomes, hypothesizing that conscious sedation/local anesthesia (CS/LA) may offer a more favorable risk-benefit ratio than general anesthesia (GA). METHODS: Multicenter cohort study screening all thrombectomy pati…