[Emergency and intensive care treatment after stroke. Recommendations of the European Consensus Group].
The concept of critical care in stroke is a controversial issue. The question of whether full-scale critical care management of stroke improves patient outcome is still open and probably depends on the definition adopted for critical care. At a second meeting of the European Ad Hoc Consensus Group, the following recommendations including specific problems for optimal emergency and critical care management of stroke patients were made.
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