Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this symposium, participants should be better able to:

• Discuss pre-hospital assessment tools to identify stroke and large vessel obstruction.
• Provide updated information on stroke in the younger population.
• Describe posterior stroke symptoms for earlier recognition of strokes.
• Provide updated information on guidelines for intracranial hemorrhages: “Time is Brain in ICH too”.
• Discuss retinal artery occlusion.
• Discuss prognostication after cardiac arrest.

Who Should Attend

Hospitalists, Internal Medicine Physicians and APPs, Pharmacists, Medical Residents, Nurses, and other Healthcare Professionals.

Topics

• Medium-vessel occlusion (MeVO)
• Stroke in younger population: update and management
• Prognostication after cardiac arrest (in and out of hospital arrest)
• What does it mean? The difference between stroke screening tools: community health and community awareness
• Stroke symptoms and the NIH stroke scale
• Retinal artery occlusion

Registration and Fees

This symposium is offered free of charge.