Neurological Emergencies is a course dedicated to updates, best practices, and new algorithms to diagnose neurological symptoms, quickly identify a neurological emergency, and take appropriate measures to optimize outcomes.
Topics
- The optimized neurologic exam
- What neuroimaging to order and how to interpret the results
- Modern stroke management—optimizing IV thrombolytics and endovascular therapy using advanced imaging rather than just the clock
- Updates in ischemic stroke, arterial dissections, and reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome
- A practical algorithmic approach to back pain; how to spot the history and examination, when to image, and what to look for
- Updates for acute management of spinal cord and cauda equina compression
- An algorithmic approach to headache and when to image
- Advances in subdural hematoma management
- Advances in the management of seizures
- State-of-the-art management of cerebral aneurysms and SAH
- The newest approaches to treat TIA and ICH
- Updates in anticoagulation reversal for ICH and TBI
- Updates in ED and ICU management of TBI
- Bringing them back: brain resuscitation after cardiac arrest
- Best current evaluation of altered mental status, coma, and brain death
- The modern evidence-based evaluation of dizziness: spoiler alert—physical exam beats imaging!
- Functional neurologic disorders—how to distinguish, how to manage, and how to most effectively communicate to patients
- Acute weakness—the evidence-based initial evaluation
- Advances in pediatric neurologic emergencies
- Medical errors: how to avoid them and what to do when they happen
Who should Attend
Attendees with responsibilities in:
- Emergency Medicine
- Neurology (Inpatient and Outpatient)
- Hospital Medicine
- Critical Care
- Intensive Care
- Family Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- Urgent Care
