CANADIAN & AMERICAN NEUROLOGICAL PROTOCOLS AND GUIDELINES ON THE WWW

stroke, migraine, sleep, infections, trauma& brain death,  pregnancy & childhood, HIV, dementia, tumors

STROKE

• Canadian guidelines for intravenous thrombolytic treatment in acute stroke : a consensus statement of the Canadian Stroke Consortium [full text] (CJNS)

• Guidelines for Thrombolytic Therapy for Acute Stroke: A Supplement to the Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke (Circulation 1996 -AHA)

• Asymptomatic carotid disease [portable document format (pdf)] (Health Canada)
  Lésions carotidiennes asymptomatiques [format pdf] 

• Practice Guidelines for the Use of Imaging in Transient Ischemic Attacks and Acute Stroke (Stroke 1997)

• Guidelines for the use of carotid endarterectomy : current recommendations from the Canadian Neurosurgical Society [full text / résumé] (CMAJ/JAMC)

• Primary prevention of ischemic stroke (AHA-Circulation)[full text]

• Stroke Protocols (outside link)

• Guidelines for management of Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhages (AHA) [full text]

• Recommendations for the Management of Patients With Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms (AHA)[full text]

MIGRAINE

• Treatment of acute migraine headaches [full text] (Therapeutic Initiatives - UBC)

• Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of migraine in clinical practice [full text / résumé] (CMAJ/JAMC)

• Guidelines for the nonpharmacologic management of migraine in clinical practice [full text / résumé] (CMAJ/JAMC)

INFECTIONS

• Advisory notice : infection control for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease [full text] (Health Canada)

SLEEP

• Protocol for primary care management of sleep complaints in adults [pdf] (Guidelines and Protocols Advisory Committee - BC)

• Protocol for the assessment and management of obstructive sleep apnea in adults [pdf] (Guidelines and Protocols Advisory Committee - BC)

TRAUMA & BRAIN DEATH

• Brain death [full text] (College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba)

• Management of children with head trauma [full text] [texte complet] (Canadian Paediatric Society)

PREGNANCY & CHILDHOOD

• The Transfer of Drugs and Other Chemicals Into Breast Milk (AAP) 1994[full text]

• Raised intracranial pressure in children [full text] (College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba)

• Recommendations on the use of folic acid supplementation to prevent the recurrence of neural tube defects [full text / résumé](CMAJ/JAMC)

• The use of folic acid for the prevention of neural tube defects [pdf] (Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada)

• Task force on cerebral palsy and fetal asphyxia [pdf] (Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada)

HIV-AIDS

• Toxoplasmosis [full text] (BC Centre for excellence in Treatment of AIDS)

• Management of HIV associated diseases : section 4 [full text] (BC Centre for excellence in Treatment of AIDS)

DEMENTIA

• Management of dementing disorders : conclusions from the Canadian Consensus Conference on Dementia [full text][texte complet] (CMAJ/JAMC)

• Guidelines for Managing Alzheimer's Disease: Part I. Assessment [full text] (Am Fam Phys)

• Guidelines for Managing Alzheimer's Disease: Part II Treatment [full text](Am Fam Phys)

TUMORS

• Treatment of neuro-oncology tumours [full text] (BC Cancer Agency)
  

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