Join us for an engaging Stroke Symposium designed to bring local, regional, and national medical providers across specialties together for an immersive dive into the latest in stroke care. This symposium will feature cutting-edge research, practical updates on best practices, and evolving standards of care, equipping you with tools to improve patient outcomes. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with peers and enhance your expertise in stroke management—because every minute counts.
Brain Attack! 2025: Comprehensive Community Stroke Care is planned and designed inter-professionally, by and for emergency medicine physicians, neurologists, neurosurgeons, primary care physicians, internists, pharmacists, neuroscience and emergency medicine nurses, and may be of interest to EMS providers, hospital administrators and other health professionals who want to enhance their knowledge of the management of patients with cerebrovascular diseases. This 6-hour hybrid course will provide education through lectures with dedicated Q & A time, case presentations, and panel discussions. Learners will understand how to optimize stroke systems of care by applying recent guidelines, improving triage and management, selecting appropriate neuroimaging, and identifying candidates for thrombolysis and thrombectomy. They will also address socioeconomic disparities, enhance access to care, and implement effective post-stroke rehabilitation strategies. The goal of this activity is to enhance knowledge, skills/strategy, performance, and patient care.
- Explain the importance of organized stroke networks of care.
- Analyze local stroke systems of care for opportunities for more efficient and effective patient triage and management.
- Apply recent updates in triaging the acute stroke patient.
- Incorporate into clinical practice the latest American Heart Association guidelines for the management of acute ischemic stroke, management of intracerebral hemorrhage, and secondary stroke prevention.
- Interpret latest acute stroke imaging techniques and select appropriate neuroimaging to identify patients with stroke and candidates for mechanical thrombectomy.
- Define patients who are candidates for thrombolysis and mechanical thrombectomy.
- Discuss Socioeconomic Disparities in acute stroke care and best community practices to enhance access to care
- Implement post-stroke rehabilitation strategies along with skilled therapists.