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Acute Stroke Treatment: Addressing Missed OpportunitiesA Grand Rounds ProgramFind and register for the program
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Program Overview
Stroke is one of the leading causes of long-term
adult disability, affecting approximately 795,000 people each year in the U.S. Many studies have identified patient failure to
arrive at the hospital in time for treatment following the stroke symptom onset
as the key barrier to increasing rates of thrombolytic treatment. Stroke center
personnel agree that public lack of knowledge about the appropriate response to
stroke symptoms is a key barrier to stroke treatment—a barrier that has proven
intransigent to many and diverse interventions.
The Acute Stroke Treatment: Addressing Missed Opportunities grand rounds program will provide a succinct update on key new evidence about acute stroke care, especially care in the emergency department, where the speed and accuracy of diagnosis and treatment can have profound long-term impacts on patient quality of life.
Purpose Statement
To educate learners on the most common missed
opportunities in acute ischemic stroke in an effort to increase diagnosis and
treatment to improve patient outcomes.
Proposed Agenda
- Time is brain–every second counts: A rationale for early treatment
- Improving
rates of treatment
- Stroke mimics and atypical presentations
- Reconsidering exclusion criteria for IV tPA
- The expanding treatment window
- Strategies to decrease door-to-needle time
Goals and Learning Objectives
The
goal of the Acute Stroke Treatment: Addressing Missed Opportunities grand
rounds activity is to promote the
reduction in time to treat and facilitate increased treatment rates for acute
ischemic stroke. Through participation in these activities, learners will be
able to:
- Discuss the rationale for earliest possible treatment
- Identify potential targets for improving times to treat in the emergency department
- Describe characteristics that can lead to delayed or missed diagnosis and/or treatment
- Discuss the rationale for evolving and modifying exclusion criteria, based on evidence
Target Audience
The
target audience for the Acute
Stroke Treatment: Addressing Missed Opportunities grand rounds activity includes
emergency medicine physicians and nurses, neurologists and neuroscience nurses.
Because in-hospital strokes account for approximately 15 percent of all
strokes, the program also will target ICU and other nurses, hospitalists and
other hospital-based professionals who care for stroke patients.
Physician Credit
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the
Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing
Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of Medical Education
Resources (MER) and National Stroke Association. MER is accredited by the ACCME
to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit
Designation
Medical Education Resources designates this live activity
for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA
Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit
commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nursing
Credit
Medical Education Resources is accredited as a provider
of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission
on Accreditation.
This CE activity provides 1 contact hour of continuing nursing education.
Medical Education Resources is a provider of continuing nursing education by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #CEP 12299, for 1 contact hour.
For questions regarding this activity, please contact Medical Education Resources at info@cmepartner.org or National Stroke Association at vsiebert-thomas@stroke.org.
