RoundsThe Tract · talks & guideline briefings

Talks from the people who wrote the guidelines.

Guideline briefings, society webinars and bedside-skill demonstrations from the AHA, the European Stroke Organisation, the ILAE, the AAN and others: chosen for being current and worth the time, dated, and grouped by topic.

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8 videos

Stroke & cerebrovascular

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The writing-group chairs on how the 2026 guideline was built and its key changes.

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What the new guideline changes for the first hour in the emergency department.

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Imaging selection and thrombectomy recommendations, from the interventional side.

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The changes that land on stroke pathways, nursing and coordination.

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What the guideline now says about acute ischaemic stroke in children.

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European blood-pressure recommendations after ischaemic stroke and haemorrhage, presented at the guideline session.

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A year of stroke trials in one session, from the ESO guideline programme.

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The joint European guideline on spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage, updated.

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3 videos

Epilepsy & seizures

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The lead author on why the 2025 classification changed and how to use it.

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A second view of the 2025 classification and the clinical reasoning behind it.

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Recognising functional seizures in the acute setting, and managing them without harm.

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2 videos

Headache & migraine

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The 2025 American Headache Society guideline on parenteral treatment in the ED.

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A yearly overview of where migraine treatment and research stand.

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2 videos

Movement disorders

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Congress session on what rehabilitation can do for motor symptoms in Parkinson’s.

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The year’s dystonia findings from the MDS International Congress.

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MS & neuroimmunology

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Optic nerve, central vein sign, kappa free light chains: the revised MS diagnostic criteria explained.

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The neurological examination

Finger–nose, heel–shin, dysdiadochokinesis and gait, demonstrated at the bedside.

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How to get a reflex you can trust, and how to reinforce one that will not come.

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The common abnormal gaits, shown and named.

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