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(Stroke. 1973;4:111.)
© 1973 American Heart Association, Inc.

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Report of the Joint Committee for Stroke Facilities

VI. Special Procedures and Equipment in the Diagnosis and Management of Stroke

SPECIAL PROCEDURES AND EQUIPMENT STUDY GROUP; WILLIAM S. FIELDS M.D.¹; RODERIC M. BELL F.A.C.H.A.²; ROBERT J. ELLINGSON PH.D. M.D.³; H. EDWARD GARRETT M.D.⁴; HERBERT I. GOLDBERG M.D.⁵; RICHARD JANEWAY M.D.⁶; AUGUST MIALE JR. M.D.⁷; MANNIE M. SCHECHTER M.D.⁸; WILLIAM H. SWEET M.D., D.SC.⁹; HENRY J. L. VAN DYK M.D.¹⁰; ARTHUR G. WALTZ M.D.¹¹

¹ University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas, 77025
² Presbyterian Hospital, 8200 Walnut Hill Lane, Dallas, Texas, 75231
³ Nebraska Psychiatric Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, 68105
⁴ University of Tennessee Medical Units, 910 Madison Avenue, Suite 823, Memphis, Tennessee, 38103
⁵ Department of Radiology, Director of Neuroradiology, Philadelphia General Hospital and Stroke Research Center, and Associate Professor of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, 700 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104
⁶ Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 27103
⁷ Nuclear Medicine Service, Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, 33152
⁸ Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, New York, 10461
⁹ Neurosurgical Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, 02114
¹⁰ Division of Ophthalmology, University of Utah Medical Center, 50 North Medical Drive, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84112
¹¹ University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55455

Joint Committee for Stroke Facilities, 1776 K Street, N.W., Suite 1010, Washington, D.C., 20006.

The use of special procedures and equipment has become an integral, progressively complex, and increasingly expensive part of diagnosis and management in cerebrovascular disease. However, tests have enhanced rather than replaced the role of precise neurological examination and sound clinical judgment in caring for the stroke patient. The physician is obligated to understand the nature, limitations, complications, costs, indications, contraindications, and values of the many available diagnostic modalities and to avoid their indiscriminate use; most, and in some cases all, of this information should be known as well by hospital administrators, nurses, allied health professionals, and even the patient and his family. This Section discusses the present status of radiological and other diagnostic studies in disorders of the cerebral circulation. Rapid changes are occurring in this field with the almost daily appearance of new procedures, modifications, and applications, thus increasing the responsibility of all concerned to keep current with these new developments.

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