Mechanical Thrombectomy in the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Emergency Preparedness for Neuroscience Teams: A Guidance Statement From the Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology

Affiliations

• ¹ From the Departments of Neurology (T.N.N., D.M.G.), Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, MA.
• ² Radiology (T.N.N., M.A.), Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, MA.
• ³ Neurosurgery (T.N.N.), Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, MA.
• ⁴ Department of Neurology, Cooper University Health Care, Camden, NJ (T.G.J.).
• ⁵ Department of Neurology, Grady Memorial Hospital/Emory University, Atlanta, GA (R.G.N., D.C.H.).
• ⁶ Department of Neurology (A.P.J., S.N., S.H.-Y.C.), University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA.
• ⁷ Department of Neurosurgery (S.H.-Y.C., A.P.J.), University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA.
• ⁸ Department of Neuroscience, Valley Baptist Medical Center/University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (A.E.H.).
• ⁹ Department of Neurology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX (R.N.).
• ¹⁰ Department of Neurology, UT Health McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX (S.A.S.).
• ¹¹ Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Radiology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (S.O.-G.).
• ¹² Department of Emergency Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO (P.D.P.).
• ¹³ Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Radiology, University of Southern Alabama, Mobile, (S.M.C.).
• ¹⁴ Departments of Interventional Neuroradiology and Endovascular Neurosurgery, Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute, FL (I.L.).
• ¹⁵ Departments of Neurology and Neuroradiology, Alexandria University Hospital, Egypt (O.Y.M.).
• ¹⁶ Department of Neurology, University of Miami, FL (A.M.M., D.R.Y.).
• ¹⁷ Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Radiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University Hospital, NY (H.E.M.).
• ¹⁸ Department of Critical Care Medicine (S.H.-Y.C.), University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA.
• ¹⁹ Department of Neurointerventional Surgery, Texas Tech University, Lubbock (R.K.).
• ²⁰ Department of Neurology, Medical City Plano Texas (V.J.).
• ²¹ Neuroscience Institute, Bon Secours Mercy Health System, St. Vincent Hospital, Toledo, OH (O.O.Z.).
• ²² Department of Neurology, UCLA Comprehensive Stroke Center, CA (D.S.L.).