This special program provides updates, best practices, and new algorithms to diagnose neurological symptoms, quickly identify a neurological emergency, and take appropriate measures to optimize outcomes for high-risk patients.
NEW PRACTICES FOR THE WORKUP AND MANAGEMENT OF NEUROLOGICAL COMPLAINTS
Led by top clinical faculty at Harvard Medical School, this program provides state-of-the-art approaches for diagnosis and management of:
HIGH-FREQUENCY NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOMS, including Headache, Back Pain, Dizziness, Delirium, General Weakness, Visual Changes
HIGH-RISK NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS, including Stroke, SDH, TIA, Concussion, TBI, SAH, Aneurysm, Spinal Cord Injury, Cauda Equina Syndrome, ICH, Meningitis
NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOMS IN SPECIAL POPULATIONS, including Pediatrics, Pregnancy, Postpartum
REASONS TO ATTEND
Every year there is a vast amount of practice-changing literature impacting diagnosis of neurological conditions and next steps to take when you have identified a neurological emergency. These important updates include newer approaches to the history, the physical, and early management.
Among the highest-rated Harvard Medical School CME courses, this program ensures participants are current with these updates and prepared to:
Better evaluate high-frequency neurological symptoms and high-risk neurological conditions
Avoid misdiagnosis in neurological emergencies
Quickly identify a neurological emergency and act in the first hours to optimize patient outcomes in emergency, inpatient, and outpatient settings
Optimize your use of CT/CTA (including what to order and how to read results)
Optimize your use of MRI (including when to order and when NOT to order)
Improve risk management
Optimize patient safety
Better understand and mitigate liability
This program is unique in that it:
Consolidates best practices in the workup of common neurological complaints
Provides tips that you can immediately put into practice
Lays out algorithms for common complaints such as headache, dizziness, back pain, and visual problems
Delivers guidance for stroke and other cerebrovascular events, including first hours of workup, the NIH Stroke Scale, tips for rapid neuroimaging and treatment (including new data on intra-arterial therapy), and best practices in risk management
Includes dedicated case-based discussion sessions with audience participation, group discussion, and opportunities to learn from both your peers and the experts
Is attended by a cross-specialty audience, leading to valuable opportunities for discussion—you can hear the perspectives of those in other specialties and other practice environments
CUSTOMIZE YOUR LEARNING EXPERIENCE FOR YOUR SPECIFIC PRACTICE NEEDS
You can tailor your learning experience to your specific interests, choosing from sessions designed for practitioners of:
Emergency Medicine
Neurology (Outpatient and Inpatient)
Hospital Medicine
Critical Care
Internal Medicine
Family Medicine
Urgent Care
Educational highlights of the 2018 program include:
Best practices for using the focused history and physical to determine which patients with headache or minor head injury require neuroimaging or further workup
An algorithmic approach to evaluating back pain and guidance to spot the history and examination “red flags”
The newest approaches to treat stroke, TIA, and ICH (includes updates for DAWN and DEFUSE 3)
Updates to diagnose and manage the comatose patient
A new paradigm to diagnose dizziness
How to determine if it’s a stroke, neuritis or BPPV
Live demonstrations of diagnostic and therapeutic maneuvers in dizziness
Updates for acute management of spinal cord and cauda equina compression
Advances in the management of seizures
Advances in SDH management
Practical approaches to bedside neuro-ophthalmology
Updates in ICU management of TBI
Anticoagulants and antiplatelets: what to choose and when