Neurological Emergencies
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Pace
Instructor-led
Subject
Difficulty
- Advanced
Credit
CE/CME Certificate
Platform
Continuing Education from Harvard Medical School
What you'll learn
Perform bedside diagnostic and therapeutic maneuvers with the dizzy patient.
Use the focused history and physical to determine which patients with headache or minor head injury require neuroimaging or further workup.
Review history and physical examination “red flags” to avoid misdiagnosis of cord and cauda equina compression in patients presenting with back pain.
Discuss how to rapidly evaluate patients with stroke symptoms for intravenous and intra-arterial revascularization therapy.
Understand diagnosis and management of brain aneurysms and subarachnoid hemorrhage.
Understand how to best use neuroimaging: reviewing head CTs, how to order spine imaging (and what to look for), and current updates for stroke imaging options.
Course description
Evaluation. Diagnosis. Management.
In Emergency, Outpatient, and Inpatient Settings
Neurological Emergencies is an online course, using live streaming, electronic Q&A, and other remote learning technologies.
This special program provides new strategies, updates, best practices, and practical tips to:
- Rapidly identify neurological emergencies
- Act early to optimize patient outcomes
- Avoid misdiagnosis
- Optimize use of diagnostics
- Evaluate common neurological complaints and high-risk conditions
- Learn practical algorithms to optimize approaches to the history and the physical exam
- Better understand the uses and limitations of neuroimaging tests
- Mitigate risk for you and your patient
- Improve patient safety
- Incorporate updates in practice to ensure state-of-the-art management of high-risk neurological conditions
The course prepares clinicians who work in emergency, inpatient, and outpatient settings to quickly and accurately diagnose and provide appropriate care for patients with:
High-frequency symptoms:
- Headache
- Back pain
- Dizziness and vertigo
- Altered mental status
- Weakness
- Seizures
High-risk conditions:
- Ischemic stroke
- TIA
- Carotid stenosis
- Intracerebral hemorrhage
- Traumatic brain injury
- Cerebral aneurysm
- Spinal cord compression
- Cauda equina syndrome
- Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome
- Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis
- Cervical artery dissections
- Coma
The program delivers the highest-quality educational experience:
- Teaches practical, effective clinical reasoning and approaches that enable you to deliver state-of-the-art care, given by recognized experts in the field
- Presents video clips from actual patients that help you see, “firsthand,” hard-to-describe physical exam findings
- Provides opportunities to interact with faculty and to pose and get answers to your specific questions
- Delivers the latest information in an engaging manner and clinically usable context so that you have knowledge that you can “take home” and immediately apply to patient care
- Enables you to tailor your learning experience to your needs, choosing among 18 breakout sessions
Access to Recordings of All Sessions
In addition to being live streamed, all sessions will be recorded and placed in the online course library, enabling registrants to view them at their convenience. Recordings will be available for viewing for 90 days after the conclusion of the course. All live streaming and recorded sessions are eligible for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and other relevant credits. (Note: Evaluations must be completed within 60 days of the conclusion of the course to receive CME credit.)
