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

Primary care physicians, family physicians, general internists, emergency medicine physicians, cardiologists, hospitalists, advanced practice providers, pending for nurses, pharmacists, emergency medical technicians, dietitians and respiratory therapists.

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.