email article For mechanical thrombectomy stroke patients, consensus guidelines favoring general anesthesia over conscious sedation during the pandemic might need revisiting. That was the argument presented at the virtual International Stroke Conference (ISC) in a debate over what should be the first-line strategy. Conscious sedation minimizes delays to treatment, which have been a problem for COVID-19 patients, and provides at least as good outcomes, argued Tudor Jovin, MD, of the Cooper Neurological Institute in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. He pointed to a prospective study of the Stroke ...