Safety and quality of endovascular therapy under general anesthesia and conscious sedation are comparable: results from the GOLIATH trial

Background The “General or Local Anesthesia in Intra-Arterial Therapy” (GOLIATH) trial compared infarct growth and outcome in patients undergoing endovascular therapy (EVT) under either general anesthesia (GA) or conscious sedation (CS). The results were the same for the primary outcome (infarct growth) but successful reperfusion was higher in the GA arm. Objective To further examine differences in the quality and safety of EVT with the two...