Acute Stroke Treatment:
New Evidence and Opportunities
Stroke Clinical Updates
Accreditation for activity has expired.
Access the latest issue of National Stroke Association’s Stroke: Clinical Updates (SCU) series, Acute Stroke Treatment: New Evidence and Opportunities by clicking here. This issue provides an update on new key evidence and provides resources to help participants implement changes to acute stroke care practice and processes.
Faculty
Steven R. Levine, MD
Mount Sinai Stroke
Center
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, New York
Recommended Audience
This SCU is designed
for emergency medicine physicians, neurointerventionalists, neurologists and general critical care physicians.
Learning Objectives
After taking part in this activity, participants
should be able to:
- Recognize the opportunity to improve acute ischemic stroke patient outcomes
- Describe evidence-based acute ischemic stroke treatment strategies regarding extension of time to treatment
- Identify recent advances in stroke management and apply the latest guidelines to clinical practice
- Choose enduring resources to help clinicians improve current practice and/or process
Program Materials
- Download SCU (PDF - includes post-test and evaluation)
Disclaimer
The content and views presented in this educational program are those
of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Medical Education Resources or National Stroke Association. All faculty
members participating in continuing medical education programs sponsored by MER are expected to disclose any real or
perceived conflict of interest related to the content of their presentations. Faculty disclosures are included in the program
materials.
Disclosure Statement
All faculty members participating in continuing
medical education programs sponsored by Medical Education Resources are expected to disclose any real or perceived conflict
of interest related to the content of their presentations. Before the program, all faculty will disclose the existence of any
relationship(s) they might have with the manufacturer(s) of any commercial products or services to be discussed during their
presentation(s).
Archived issues of Stroke: Clinical Updates on acute stroke are available at http://www.stroke.org/scu.
For acute stroke CME/CE activities, click here.
This program is supported by educational grants from Genentech, Inc. and Penumbra, Inc.