Use of anticoagulants in acute ischemic stroke

This is a systematic review abstract, a regular feature of the Annals’ Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine (EBEM) series. Each features an abstract of a systematic review from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and a commentary by an emergency physician knowledgeable in the subject area. The source for this systematic review abstract is: Gubitz G, Counsell C, Sandercock P, Signorini D. Anticoagulants for acute ischaemic stroke (Cochrane Review). In: The Cochrane Library. Issue 3. Oxford, United Kingdom: Update Software; 2004. The Annals’ EBEM editors helped prepare the abstract of this Cochrane systematic review as well as the EvidenceBased Medicine Teaching Points.