Current Management of Arteriovenous Malformations || Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus: Guidelines for Provocative Testing

The Miami Neuroscience Symposium Online will cover topics related to surgical management, stroke management, neurocritical care, neuro-imaging and neuro-oncology. The expert faculty will engage participants through complex cases and novel treatment strategies. Our goal is to share the most innovative and evidence-based clinical practices available in order to optimize patient outcomes in these areas of neuroscience.

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Current Management of Arteriovenous Malformations

This lecture will address the incidence and natural history of arteriovenous malformations, along with examining the outcomes of surgical and nonsurgical options, and multimodality treatment options available for patients with arteriovenous malformations.

Learning Objectives:
  • Review the incidence and natural history of arteriovenous malformations.
  • Determine the outcomes of surgical resection of arteriovenous malformations compared to outcomes in nonsurgically treated patients.
  • Recognize multimodality treatment options available for patients with arteriovenous malformations.

Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus: Guidelines for Provocative Testing

This lecture will address the differential diagnosis of patients who present with characteristic manifestations of normal pressure hydrocephalus and the importance of early-stage treatment once normal pressure hydrocephalus is confirmed.

Learning Objectives:
  • Describe the clinical symptoms of normal pressure hydrocephalus. 
  • Identify which tests may be utilized to confirm the diagnosis. 
  • Recognize which surgical treatment modalities may be offered for treatment. 

Original Release Date: November 2020
Review Date: October 2021

Target Audience

Adult and Pediatric Neurologists, Neurosurgeons, Stroke Neurologists, Neuroradiologists, Diagnostic Radiologists, Critical Care Physicians, Neurointensivists, Emergency Medicine Physicians, Internal Medicine Physicians, Interventional Neuroradiologists, Family Physicians, General Internists, Physician Assistants, Critical Care and Neuroscience Nurses, Neurosurgery Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Respiratory Therapists (Personal Growth) and Rehabilitation and Pain Management Specialists, as well as other specialists interested in the field of neuroscience.

Additional information
Bibliography: 
  • Bloch, O., & McDermott, M. W. (2012). Lumboperitoneal shunts for the treatment of normal pressure hydrocephalus. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 19(8), 1107-1111.
  • Fife, T. D. (2003). Clinical features of normal pressure hydrocephalus. Barrow Quarterly, 19(2), 10-15.
  • Derdeyn, C. P., Zipfel, G. J., Albuquerque, F. C., Cooke, D. L., Feldmann, E., Sheehan, J. P., & Torner, J. C. (2017). Management of brain arteriovenous malformations: a scientific statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. Stroke, 48(8), e200-e224.
  • Starke, R. M., Yen, C. P., Ding, D., & Sheehan, J. P. (2013). A practical grading scale for predicting outcome after radiosurgery for arteriovenous malformations: analysis of 1012 treated patients. Journal of neurosurgery, 119(4), 981-987.
Course Summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.50 General certificate of attendance
  • 1.50 Nurse Practitioners
  • 1.50 Florida Board of Nursing
  • 1.50 Florida Board of Respiratory Therapy
Course opens: 
11/12/2020
Course expires: 
09/30/2022

Vitaly Siomin, M.D.      
Neurosurgeon
Director, Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery
Co-Director, Skull Base Surgery
Baptist Hospital of Miami, Miami Cancer Institute
Miami, Florida

Jennifer Viner, N.P., MSN  
Breast Care Plastic Surgery 
Bakar Precision Cancer Medicine
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, California 

Vitaly Siomin, M.D., and Jennifer Viner, N.P., MSN, faculty of this educational activity, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose and have indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.

Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development, and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies*. 

*Ineligible companies -- Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

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Baptist Health South Florida designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Available Credit

  • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.50 General certificate of attendance
  • 1.50 Nurse Practitioners
  • 1.50 Florida Board of Nursing
  • 1.50 Florida Board of Respiratory Therapy
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