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Study name	Impact of anesthesia during endovascular treatment of acute ischemic stroke
Methods	Setting: single‐centre, Germany Design: RCT, 2 arms, parallel assignment, open‐label Start date: 13 October 2014
Participants	130 men and women aged 18–85 years Inclusion criteria AIS with the indication for endovascular clot retrieval Anterior circulation stroke Acute focal neurological deficit Spontaneous breathing Exclusion criteria Intracerebral tumour Intracerebral haemorrhage Severe stroke (NIHSS > 25) Seizure at beginning of treatment Significant trauma within the last 3 months Intracranial surgery in medical history Blood glucose < 50 mg/dL or > 400 mg/dL Alcohol abuse Chronic pain Severe systemic infections Dementia (mRS ≥ 3)
Interventions	Experimental: CSA Comparator: GA
Outcomes	Primary outcome Neurological outcome mRS after 3 months Secondary outcomes Neurological outcome on discharge from hospital mortality rate (in hospital, after 3 months) Duration of intensive treatment Time to start the definitive neuroradiological intervention Rate of recanalisation
Starting date	13 October 2014
Contact information	Dr Kathrin Waurick Universitätsklinikum Münster Klinik für Anästhesiologie, Germany +49‐251‐83‐47255; k.broeking at gmx.com
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