Mood Disorders in Cerebrovascular Disease | Legal Issues in Stroke and Cardiac Disease

Target Audience

Primary care physicians, family physicians, general internists, emergency medicine physicians, cardiologists, hospitalists, nurses, advanced practice providers, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, occupational therapists, social workers, advanced practice registered nurses and emergency medical technicians. 

Learning Objectives

  • Describe mental health issues following stroke.
  • Identify two of the most common reasons for a malpractice case in stroke patients. 
  • Identify the three requirements of a legal case to determine liability. 
Additional information
Bibliography: 
  • American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. (2022, June 14). Suicide statistics. American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. 
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2022, June). Suicide. National Institute of Mental Health. 
  • Tsao, C. W., Aday, A. W., Almarzooq, Z. I., Alonso, A., Beaton, A. Z., Bittencourt, M. S., ... & American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology and Prevention Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee. (2022). Heart disease and stroke statistics—2022 update: a report from the American Heart Association. Circulation, 145(8), e153-e639.
Course Summary
Available credit: 
  • 2.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 2.50 General certificate of attendance
  • 2.50 Florida Board of Clinical Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Mental Health Counselors
  • 2.50 Nurse Practitioners
  • 2.50 Florida Board of Nursing
  • 2.50 Florida Board of Occupational Therapy
  • 2.50 Florida Board of Pharmacy
Course opens: 
01/01/2023
Course expires: 
12/31/2025
Part of: 
Knock Out Stroke e-Learning Series

Yankel Girshman, D.O., FAPA
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
Medical Director, Psychiatry
Boca Raton Regional Hospital
Baptist Health South Florida
Affiliate Professor, FAU College of Medicine
Boca Raton, Florida

Antonia Smillova, Esq.
Partner, Wicker Smith O’Hara McCoy & Ford P.A.
West Palm Beach, Florida 

Yankel Girshman, D.O., FAPA, and Antonia Smillova, Esq., faculty for 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.

Khalid Hanafy, M.D., Ph.D., and Kendra Kent, M.S., R.N., conference directors for this educational activity, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose.

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 is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Baptist Health has been re-surveyed by the ACCME and awarded Commendation for 6 years as a provider of CME for physicians.
              
Baptist Health South Florida designates this enduring material for a maximum of 2.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Available Credit

  • 2.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 2.50 General certificate of attendance
  • 2.50 Florida Board of Clinical Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Mental Health Counselors
  • 2.50 Nurse Practitioners
  • 2.50 Florida Board of Nursing
  • 2.50 Florida Board of Occupational Therapy
  • 2.50 Florida Board of Pharmacy
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