Guidelines

Clinical Performance Measures for Neurocritical Care

View: A Statement for Healthcare Professionals from the Neurocritical Care Society.

Standards for Neurologic Critical Care Units

View: A Statement for Healthcare Professionals from the Neurocritical Care Society

Guidelines for the Acute Treatment of Cerebral Edema in Neurocritical Care Patients

View: A Statement for Healthcare Professionals from the Neurocritical Care Society, endorsed by the Society for Critical Care Medicine and the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses. The American Academy of Neurology has affirmed the value of this guideline.

The Implementation of Targeted Temperature Management: An Evidence-Based Guideline from the Neurocritical Care Society

View: An evidence-based guideline from the Neurocritical Care Society.

Guideline for Reversal of Antithrombotics in Intracranial Hemorrhage

View: A Statement for Healthcare Professionals from the Neurocritical Care Society and Society of Critical Care Medicine.
The American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons affirm the educational benefit of this document.
View: Slide Kit Overview

Prophylaxis of Venous Thrombosis in Neurocritical Care Patients

View: An Evidence-Based Guideline: A Statement for Healthcare Professionals from the Neurocritical Care Society.
View: Slide Kit Overview 

Evidence-based Guidelines for the Management of Large Hemispheric Infarction

View: A Statement for Health Care Professionals from the Neurocritical Care Society and the German Society for Neuro-Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine.
Endorsed by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. The American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) endorse the educational content of this scientific statement 2015.
View: Slide Kit Overview 

Guidelines for the Evaluation and Management of Status Epilepticus

Neurocritical Care Resource Utilization in Pandemics

View: A Position Statement for Healthcare Professionals from the Neurocritical Care Society.

Recommendations For the Critical Care Management of Devastating Brain Injury: Prognostication, Psychosocial, and Ethical Management

View: A Position Statement for Healthcare Professionals from the Neurocritical Care Society.
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The Insertion and Management of External Ventricular Drains: An Evidence-based Consensus Statement

View: A Statement for Healthcare Professionals from the Neurocritical Care Society.

Consensus Summary Statement of the International Multidisciplinary Consensus Conference on Multimodality Monitoring in Neurocritical Care

View: A statement for healthcare professionals from the Neurocritical Care Society and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.
Endorsed by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and Latin American Brain Injury Consortium. This article is endorsed by the Japan Society of Neurological Emergency and Critical Care (JNE), the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) and is being simultaneously published in Neurocritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine 2014.
View: Evidentiary Tables
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View: Related Publications 

Critical Care Management of Patients Following Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

View: Recommendations from the Neurocritical Care Society's Multidisciplinary Consensus Conference.
View: Spanish Translation
View: Related Publications

AAN

• The COVID-19 pandemic and the ethical duties of the neurologist (View)
• Updated Nomenclature of Delirium and Acute Encephalopathy: Statement of Ten Societies (View)
• Practice Guideline: Reducing Brain Injury After Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (View) 
• Determining Brain Dealth in Adults (View)
• Concussion in Sports Guideline (View) 

AAN & ACEP

• Clinical Policy: Use of Intravenous tPA for the Management of Acute Ischemic Stroke in the Emergency Department (View) 

American Heart Association/American Stroke Association

• Guidelines for the Early Management of Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke: 2019 Update to the 2018 Guidelines for the Early Management of Acute Ischemic Stroke (View)
• Palliative and End-of-Life Care in Stroke: A Statement for Healthcare Professionals (View)
• Guidelines for the Management of Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage (View)
• Recommendations for the Management of Cerebral and Cerebellar Infarction with Swelling (View)
• Recommendations for Regional Stroke Destination Plans in Rural, Suburban, and Urban Communities From the Prehospital Stroke System of Care Consensus Conference (View)

SNACC

• Anesthetic Management of Endovascular Treatment for Acute Ischemic Stroke (View)
  

NCS Guidelines Committee

The NCS Guidelines Committee directs the development of specialty appropriate clinical practice guidelines, oversees internal and external review of documents requesting imprimatur of the society, and collaborates with other societies when endorsement or affirmation of content is requested. The Guidelines Committee also provides guidance on nomenclature and allocation of resources for new projects that seek NCS imprimatur, and/or could benefit from structure and oversight provided by the committee.

Responsibilities:

• Determining topics suitable for guideline development

• Assisting with document nomenclature

• Identifying key content experts for selected topics

• Facilitating development of clinical practice guidelines utilizing the GRADE approach

• Managing internal and external peer review processes

• Organizing expert panels to address controversial issues

• Coordinating endorsements and collaborations with other societies

• Determining document distribution through publication, presentation at national and international meetings, and other electronic communications

Partnership and Endorsement Requests

If you are interested in partnering with NCS or having your guideline endorsed by NCS, please send a formal request to info@neurocriticalcare.org. 

ECRI Guidelines Trust® (EGI) 

Since 1968, the people of ECRI Institute have made it their mission to protect patients from unsafe and ineffective medical technologies and practices. More than 5,000 healthcare institutions and systems worldwide rely on the ECRI Institute to guide their operational and strategic decisions. NCS is proud to post our guidelines on the ECRI website. You can learn more by visiting their web page here: guidelines.ecri.org.