Blood pressure in Acute Stroke Collaboration (BASC)

What is BASC?

BASC is an international collaborative project with the aim of producing a set of systematic reviews relating to the best management of blood pressure (including hypertension and hypotension) in patients with acute stroke. The project is registered with the Cochrane Collaboration through it's Stroke Review Group. Further information is available in the accompanying Newsletters (see below).

Please note, BASC is a collaborative international research project and is not able to provide medical information to individuals.

Project personnel

• Professor Philip Bath MD FRCP
• Collaborators

Telephone: +44 (0)115 8231765

Fax: +44 (0)115 8231767

Second BASC Collaborators Meeting, Vienna 2000

The secpmd BASC meeting was held in May 2000 in Vienna at the 9th European Stroke Conference. This meeting took place on the morning of May 24 before registration for the conference. The final results from phase II, the grouped data analysis, was presented, along with the preliminary results from phase III, the individual patient data analysis. Meeting agenda/minutes here.

First BASC Meeting, Amsterdam 1997

The first BASC meeting was held at the 6th European Stroke Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on Wednesday 28 May 1997. The project's aims, progress, problems (mainly persuading some trialists and pharmaceutical companies to share their data and join the Collaboration), were discussed and results from phase I were presented.

*** The BASC poster won a poster prize at the meeting. This is fantastic and reflects very well on the collaboration ***

We intend to hold another collaborators meeting when further results become available.

Meeting agenda

Meeting minutes

BASC Newsletters

Newsletter 1, Autumn 1996

Newsletter 2, Spring 1997

Newsletter 3, Summer 1997

Newsletter 4, Spring 1998

Newsletter 5, Spring 1999

Newsletter 6, Spring 2000

Newsletter 7, Spring 2001

Publications

Project start-up:

• Bath FJ, Bath PMW, on behalf of BASC. Blood pressure in Acute Stroke Collaboration (BASC). Cerebrovasc Dis 1996;6(S2):75. 5th European Stroke Conference, Munich, September 1996. Abstract & poster on the project.
• Bath F, Bath P. A systematic overview of blood pressure management in acute stroke. In: Warlow C, Van Gijn J, Sandercock P (eds.) Stroke Module of The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, [updated 06 September 1996]. Available in The Cochrane Library [database on disk and CDROM]. The Cochrane Collaboration; Issue 3. Oxford: Update Software; 1996. Updated quarterly. Available from: BMJ Publishing Group, London. First version 14 June 1996. Project protocol.
• Blood Pressure in Acute Stroke Collaboration. Major Ongoing Stroke Trials. Stroke 1996;27:(10),1930. Abstract on the project.
• Bath FJ, Bath PM, on behalf of BASC. Blood Pressure in Acute Stroke Collaboration (BASC). Stroke 1997;28:(1),234. 22nd International Joint Conference on Stroke and Cerbral Circualation, Anaheim, February 1997. Abstract & poster on the project. The Blood pressure in Acute Stroke Collaborators, and Fiona J Bath, Philip MW Bath. Blood Pressure in Acute Stroke Collaboration (BASC). Cerebrovasc Dis 1997;7(S4):41. 6th European Stroke Conference, Amsterdam, May 1997. Abstract and poster on the project. Poster prize winner.
• Bath FJ, Bath PMW. What is the correct management of blood pressure in acute stroke? The Blood pressure in Acute Stroke Collaboration. Cerebrovasc Dis 1997;7:(4),205-13. Project protocol.

Project results:

• Blood pressure in Acute Stroke Collaboration (BASC). Blood pressure management in acute stroke. Part I: assessment of trials designed to alter blood pressure. In: Warlow C, Van Gijn J, Sandercock P, Candelise L, Langhorne P (eds.) Stroke Module of The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, [updated 03 June 1997]. Available in The Cochrane Library [database on disk and CDROM]. The Cochrane Collaboration; Issue 3. Oxford: Update Software; 1997.
• Blood pressure in Acute Stroke Collaboration (BASC). Blood pressure management in acute stroke. Part II: vasoactive drugs in acute stroke. Availabe in The Cochrane Library; Issue 4; 2000.

Funding

We thank the following organisation who are funding the project:

• UK NHS Executive South Thames
• UK NHS Executive Trent

Written by Fiona Bath, last updated 26th October 2000

Updated 22nd April 2008