Guidelines

Living guidelines for stroke management

A three-year pilot project to build and evaluate a world-first, online, dynamically updating summary of stroke evidence to guide clinical practice and policy development.

Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management 2017

The Stroke Foundation developed these clinical guidelines to provide evidence-based recommendations for the management of stroke. The recommendations in the Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management 2017 have been approval by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).

The Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management 2017 updates and supersedes the Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management 2010.

Childhood stroke clinical guidelines

Guidelines for diagnosis and acute management, and for subacute management of childhood stroke, were developed in 2017 and 2019 respectively.

Guidelines for the Management of Absolute Cardiovascular Disease Risk 2012

The Stroke Foundation is part of the National Vascular Disease Prevention Alliance (NVDPA), which developed the guidelines for the management of absolute cardiovascular disease risk.