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Partners HealthCare System is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Partners HealthCare System designates this live activity for a maximum of 16.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the activity, with individual assessments of the participant and feedback to the participant, enables the participant to earn 16 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics' (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABP MOC credit.

Nursing

Accreditation

Brigham and Women's Hospital is an Approved Provider of continuing nursing education by the Northeast Multistate Division, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. This program will award 8 nursing contact hours for Day 1, and 8 nursing contact hours for Day 2.

• Medical_Professionals
• Medical_students
• Nurses

Amplitude-integrated electroencephalography (aEEG) is an important tool for continuous monitoring of brain function, sleep wake cycling, and instantaneous detection of electrographic seizures. aEEG monitoring plays an important role in monitoring neonates with encephalopathy, neonatal seizures, and extremely premature infants. In addition, neuroimaging including head ultrasound (HUS) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) are able to delineate brain structures and evaluate for brain growth and brain injury both in term and preterm infants.

Although the aEEG technology has been available for years, it has been underutilized. Additionally, neuroimaging modalities are performed and interpreted only by specialized radiologists. The New England Neonatal aEEG and Neuroimaging Workshop will educate medical providers (physicians, trainees, and nurses) about the technology of neonatal aEEG as well as how to interpret and incorporate it into clinical practice. This workshop will also provide the basic knowledge needed to interpret neonatal HUS and MRI and their applications in neonates.

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

1. Identify how aEEG tracing is processed, and the difference between aEEG and cEEG 

2. Interpret and score aEEG tracing 

3. Describe the variable clinical applications of aEEG in preterm and term neonates 

4. Review the practical steps of applying the aEEG electrodes 

5. Assess the indications and limitations of neonatal neuroimaging 

6. Interpret basic neonatal HUS and MRI findingss

7. Recognize the variable clinical applications of head ultrasound and brain MRI in preterm and term neonates

This activity is intended for Neonatal Intensive Care Physicians (Neonatologists and Neurologists), Fellows, Nurses and Allied Health Professionals.

Sara Bates, MD

Attending Neonatologist, Director of Clinical and Translational Research

Division of Newborn Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Carol Benson, MD

Director of Ultrasound,

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Linda de Vries, MD

Professor in Neonatal Neurology,

Utrecht Medical Center,

Netherlands

Marcia Filip, RN

Newborn Intensive Care Unit,

Brigham and Women's Hospital

P. Ellen Grant, MD

Director of Fetal and Neonatal Neuroimaging Research

Boston Children's Hospital Endowed Chair in Neonatology

Boston Children's Hospital

Professor of Radiology and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Deirdre Greene, RN, MSN

Nurse in Charge,

Newborn Intensive Care Unit,

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Debra Marks, RN, RNC-NIC

Clinical Educator

Newborn Intensive Care Unit,

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Christina Meehan, MSN, RNC-NIC

Clinical Educator

Newborn Intensive Care Unit,

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Jeffrey Neil, MD, PhD

Neurologist, Department of Neurology,

Boston Children's Hospital;

Visiting Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Corinne Pryor, BS RNC-NIC IBCLC

Clinical Educator

Newborn Intensive Care Unit,

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Arnold Sansevere, MD

Neurologist, Department of Neurology,

Boston Children's Hospital;

Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Brian Walsh, MB, BCh, PhD

Attending Neonatologist,

Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine,

Brigham and Women's Hospital

USD

Group registrations not allowed

Accompanying persons not allowed

We don’t accept Online Abstracts

Submission Info

Office of Continuing Professional Development & Implementation Science , Partners HealthCare

Phone: 857-282-2512

Email: partnerscpd@partners.org

Office of Continuing Professional Development & Implementation Science , Partners HealthCare

Phone: 857-282-2512

Email: partnerscpd@partners.org