Neurology & Stroke Clinical Guidelines

Neurology and stroke guidelines index: AHA/ASA, Neurocritical Care Society, AES, ILAE, AAN, and Brain Trauma Foundation guidelines with edition and source.

Editorial responsibility: The Clinical Database

This index lists the professional-society guidelines that govern neurology and stroke practice, with the publisher, the current edition, the stated scope, and a link to the source for each. It is the source list from which this department’s guideline syntheses are being built. The parent hub is Neurology & Stroke.

Governing guidelines

Guideline	Publisher	Edition	Scope	Source
2026 Guideline for the Early Management of Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke	AHA/ASA	2026, replacing the 2019 update to the 2018 guideline	Prehospital care, emergency evaluation, intravenous thrombolysis and endovascular therapy, and in-hospital management including early secondary prevention, in adults	Stroke
Guideline for the Management of Patients With Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage	AHA/ASA	2022	Diagnosis, acute inpatient care, prevention, and rehabilitation for spontaneous ICH not caused by trauma or a visualized structural lesion	Stroke
Guideline for the Management of Patients With Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage	AHA/ASA	2023, replaces 2012	Diagnosis, systems of care, treatment of the ruptured aneurysm, inpatient management of complications, nursing care, and recovery	Stroke
Guideline for the Prevention of Stroke in Patients With Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack	AHA/ASA	2021	Diagnostic evaluation and secondary prevention after ischemic stroke or TIA	Stroke
Guideline for the Primary Prevention of Stroke	AHA/ASA	2024, replaces 2014	Risk assessment and prevention strategies for people with no history of stroke	Stroke
Guidelines for the Evaluation and Management of Status Epilepticus	Neurocritical Care Society	2012	Definitions, evaluation, and treatment of convulsive, non-convulsive, and refractory status epilepticus in critically ill patients	Neurocritical Care
Evidence-Based Guideline: Treatment of Convulsive Status Epilepticus in Children and Adults	American Epilepsy Society	2016	Pharmacologic treatment of early convulsive status epilepticus, with an evidence-based treatment algorithm	Epilepsy Currents
A Definition and Classification of Status Epilepticus	ILAE Task Force on Classification of Status Epilepticus	2015	Operational definition of status epilepticus (time points t1 and t2) and classification by semiology, etiology, EEG correlate, and age	PubMed
Guidelines for the Acute Treatment of Cerebral Edema in Neurocritical Care Patients	Neurocritical Care Society	2020	Hyperosmolar agents, corticosteroids, and selected non-pharmacologic therapies for cerebral edema in subarachnoid hemorrhage, ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage, traumatic brain injury, bacterial meningitis, and hepatic encephalopathy	PubMed
Guidelines for the Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury	Brain Trauma Foundation	4th edition, 2016, with a 2020 update of the decompressive craniectomy recommendations	Monitoring and treatment of severe TBI across 18 topics, including intracranial pressure monitoring, treatment of brain swelling, surgical procedures, and nutrition	Brain Trauma Foundation
Teratogenesis, Perinatal, and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes After In Utero Exposure to Antiseizure Medication	AAN, AES, and SMFM	2024	Antiseizure medication selection and folic acid supplementation in people with epilepsy of childbearing potential	Neurology

How the guideline series are built

Each series on this site is a synthesis, not a summary of a single guideline. The relevant professional-society guidelines for a topic are read together, their recommendations integrated into one clinical reference, and every substantive statement carries a numbered, DOI-linked citation back to its source. Long syntheses are split into sequential part pages so each part loads fast and is individually citable. Every page carries a published date and a lastmod date in its metadata; when a source society issues a new or updated guideline, the affected series is revised and its lastmod advances. Each series is reviewed by clinicians before it publishes. This department’s series are forthcoming and will be linked here as they are published.

Frequently asked questions

What is in the neurology and stroke guidelines index?

A table of the professional-society guidelines that govern acute stroke care, stroke prevention, status epilepticus, cerebral edema, severe traumatic brain injury, and antiseizure medication in pregnancy, each with publisher, current edition, scope, and a link to the source.

Where are the neurology guideline syntheses?

They are forthcoming. The site’s guideline series are multi-society syntheses with DOI-linked citations, split into sequential part pages, each carrying a published date and a lastmod date and reviewed by clinicians. This department’s series will be linked from this page and from the Neurology & Stroke hub as they publish.

Should this index be used in place of the source guidelines?

No. The index identifies the governing documents and their scope. Recommendation-level content lives in the source guidelines linked in the table and, once published, in the reviewed syntheses. Local protocols and medical direction govern actual care.

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