Cooling for Ischaemic Stroke: Launch Meeting planned

The EuroHYP-1 investigators are currently planning the launch meeting for the EUROHYP-1 trial, to be held on 6-7th March. Bringing together stroke researchers, patient groups and Small and Medium sized Enterprises from throughout Europe, this pivotal meeting will set the scene for one of the most important stroke trials of recent years. Further details will appear here shortly.

We are extremely grateful to the researchers, colleagues, patient representatives, SMEs and others who have been with us on the journey so far and have contributed so much to what is shaping up to be a pivotal trial of this highly promising treatment. Special thanks to the European Stroke Organisation, the Stroke Alliance for Europe, ECRIN, and the FP7 National Contact Points who have been so helpful.

Details of the Trial Protocol will shortly be launched on this website. Centres wishing to join the trial should email for further details including contact email for their National Co-ordinator and to be given access to a simple online eligibility questionnaire.

EuroHYP has attracted a great deal of press attention, some of which is given on the Press page.

You can contact EuroHYP by email here.

Hypothermia Call for Action

In 2010 a consensus meeting hosted by EuroHYP agreed the Hypothermia: Call for Action, later published in the International Journal of Stroke

Rationale for trial design

In this JCBFM Review Article> the EuroHYP investigators discuss the various considerations which have led to the design of the EuroHYP trial protocol

Supporting Experimental Data

In one of the most highly cited systematic reviews of animal studies van der Worp and colleagues show that animal data supporting hypothermia is more convincing than for any other intervention