Central Nervous System Clinical Guidelines

Headaches: Diagnosis and management of headaches in young people and adults

Sep 2012

Headaches are one of the most common neurological problems presented to GPs and neurologists. They are painful and..

Alteplase for treating acute ischaemic stroke

Sep 2012

Alteplase (Actilyse, Boehringer Ingelheim) is a tissue plasminogen activator manufactured by recombinant DNA technology...

Guideline for the diagnosis and management of myelofibrosis

Mar 2012

The objective of this guideline is to provide healthcare professionals with clear guidance on the investigation and..

The epilepsies: the diagnosis and management of the epilepsies in adults and children in primary and secondary care

Jan 2012

This guideline offers best practice advice on the care of children, young people and adults with epilepsy...

Use of antibody testing in nervous system disorders

Jan 2011

To evaluate service provision and quality assurance schemes for clinically useful autoantibody tests in neurology...

Cluster headache and other trigemino- autonomic cephalgias

Jan 2011

These guidelines aim to give evidence - based recommendations for the treatment of cluster headache attacks, for the..

Cognitive rehabilitation

Jan 2011

The aim was to evaluate the existing evidence for the clinical effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation in stroke and..

Treatment of medication overuse headache – guideline of the EFNS headache panel

Jan 2011

This guideline aims to give recommendations for the treatment of medication overuse headache (MOH) as classified by the..

Treatment of miscellaneous idiopathic headache disorders (group 4 of the IHS classification) – Report of an EFNS task force

Jan 2011

To give expert recommendations for the different drug and non-drug treatment procedures of these different headache..

Neurological problems in liver transplantation

Jan 2011

The recommendation section includes statements classifi ed in levels A – C derived from Classes I – III of evidence..

Management of narcolepsy in adults

Jan 2011

The treatments used for narcolepsy, either pharmacological or behavioural, are diverse. However, the quality of the..

Early (uncomplicated) Parkinson’s disease

Jan 2011

This chapter provides these scientifi cally supported treatment recommendations...

Late (complicated) Parkinson’s disease

Jan 2011

Patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD) may suffer from any combination of motor and non - motor problems...

EFNS guidelines for the diagnosis and management of Alzheimer's disease

Oct 2010

The aim of this revised international guideline was to present a peer-reviewed evidence-based statement for the guidance..

Guidelines for All Healthcare Professionals in the Diagnosis and Management of : Migraine / Tension-Type Headache / Cluster Headache / Medication-Overuse Headache

Sep 2010

The purpose of these guidelines is to suggest strategies of management for the common headache disorders that have been..

Therapeutic endoscopic division of epidural adhesions

Feb 2010

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has issued full guidance to the NHS in England, Wales,..

EFNS guideline on the management of status epilepticus in adults

Jan 2010

Recommendations are based on this literature and on our judgement of the relevance of the references to the subject...

Diagnosis and pharmacological management of Parkinson’s disease

Jan 2010

This guideline provides recommendations based on current evidence for best practice in the diagnosis and pharmacological..

Diagnosis and management of headache in adults. A national clinical guideline

Nov 2008

This guideline provides recommendations based on evidence for best practice in the diagnosis and management of headache..

Headache in children

Jan 2008

Headache is a common problem in children. Studies of prevalence of any type of headache have shown that up to 50% of..

Parkinson's disease: National clinical guideline for diagnosis and management in primary and secondary care

Jan 2007

The NICE clinical guideline on Parkinson's disease covers: - the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease and checking the..

Dementia: A NICE–SCIE Guideline on supporting people with dementia and their carers in health and social care

Nov 2006

This guideline has been developed to advise on supporting people with dementia and their carers in health and social..

Diagnosis and management of epilepsies in children and young people

Mar 2005

This is an evidence based guideline covering the diagnosis and management of the epilepsies of children and young people..

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