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Stroke Symposium Presents Guidelines, Emergent Treatments
The Second Annual Stroke Symposium, Continuum of Care: Impacting Management, Improving Outcomes, Oct. 22, UT Conference Center, will present information for healthcare professionals practicing in emergency medicine, family medicine and internal medicine, as well as pharmacists, advanced care nurses, staff nurses, therapists and other professionals who work to prevent and treat stroke. Presented by the University of Tennessee Medical Center Brain and Spine Institute and UT Graduate School of Medicine, the symposium will offer seven CME credits through AMA, AAPA, ACPE and TPTA as well as CEUs.
Stroke is the third leading cause of mortality in Tennessee, yet stroke patients' care differs across the state. The Tennessee Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Plan outlines objectives to prevent stroke, improve access to care and emergent treatment, and ensure that all Tennesseans diagnosed with stroke receive aggressive treatment to prevent mortality and associated complications or disabilities.
The Second Annual Stroke Symposium will provide education to improve the healthcare provider's knowledge of these guidelines, which is critical to improving outcomes for these patients. Participants will learn about evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of stroke; interventional management of cerebral aneurysms; strategies for primary and secondary prevention of stroke; post-stroke rehabilitation priorities and innovations; evaluation and triage of patient problems; and drug therapies for stroke patients.
Information will be presented by experts in the field, including Todd Crocco, MD, Chair and Fellowship Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, West Virginia University; James Groce, III, PharmD, CACP, Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Campbell University School of Pharmacy, North Carolina; and Corley Roberts, MHS, Director, Quality Improvement Initiatives, American Heart Association, Tennessee.
Directed by John Beuerlein, MD, Medical Director of Knoxville Inpatient Physicians and University of Tennessee Medical Center Primary Stroke Program, this CME event will open registration soon at www.tennessee.edu/cme/Stroke2009. For more information, contact Communications and Outreach at 305-9190.
