Event Details

This seminar addresses the latest evidence in acute stroke treatment, and secondary stroke prevention, specifically addressing areas of active clinical research and recent discovery. Special attention is paid to stroke in a pediatric population, a rare but devastating illness if not emergently managed and prevented where possible.

Using lecture, case presentation, and round table discussion, this seminar will highlight:

• Acute clinical decision making and treatment to maximize stroke patient outcomes from the moment of presentation to intervention
• Specific evidence-based recommendations for stroke prevention and management to prevent stroke and reduce stroke related complications
• Atypical stroke populations, most notably, that of the pediatric population; focusing on identification of rare disease and emergent management, and those presenting with hemorrhagic stroke
• Building more streamlined management in the first-response to stroke (ED to intervention) and integrating non-traditional clinical staff in pathway

At the conclusion of the LCMC Health Neuroscience Symposium, participants should be able to:

• Discuss stroke management with multiple medical and surgical modalities
• Identify changes in management of late window stroke, and modalities for diagnosis of core and penumbra (as well as articulate the differences between these)
• Determine the indication for omitting IV thrombolytics prior to thrombectomy
• Discuss pediatric stroke epidemiology, diagnosis, imaging modalities, and treatment
• Discuss evaluation of patients using traditional laboratory studies, as well as newer techniques including transcranial doppler
• Discuss the most effective means to respond to strokes from EMS to ED to transfer/admission
• Identify Virtual Reality (VR), and Augmented Reality (AR) modalities used in rehabilitation
• Discuss how emergency departments can streamline care for patients with stroke-like symptoms to maximize response
• Discuss integration of advance practice providers in the management of those with critical neurologic injury / disease

Symposium Agenda

Who Should Attend?

• Emergency Medicine Physicians
• Family Practitioners
• Hospitalists
• General Neurologists
• Neurosurgeons
• Residents / Fellows
• Cardiologists
• Nurses
• Nurse Practitioners
• Physicians Assistants
• Field-based, First Responders
• Hospital Administrators

CME Credit

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of LAMMICO/Medical Interactive and the LCMC Health Neuroscience Institute at West Jefferson Medical Center. LAMMICO/Medical Interactive is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

LAMMICO/Medical Interactive designates this live internet activity for a maximum of 7 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity based on time in the webinar.

LAMMICO/Medical Interactive requires planners, speakers, faculty and all those who influence the content of a CME activity to disclose any financial relationships they have with ineligible companies that are relevant to the CME activity. The disclosures are reviewed for any conflict of interest and subjected to a mechanism for resolution of conflict of interest.

MOC applied for with American Boards of Psychiatry & Neurology and Neurosurgical Surgery.

CNE Credit

7 contact hours of nursing continuing professional development will be awarded to nurses who register, attend and complete an evaluation. The LCMC Health Nursing Education Committee is an approved provider of Nursing Continuing Professional Development by the Louisiana State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Continuing education credit for PT/OT/ST pending.