Description: 

Physicians and Advanced Practice Clinicians seek to improve their knowledge and skills to evaluate, assess, diagnose, and manage complex stroke cases. Stroke case studies and practice-based neurological patient care management will promote interactive dialogue to improve overall neurological knowledge, competency, and performance of the clinical care team. Specialist physicians, APCs, and RNs from neurology, neuroradiology, emergency medicine, neurosurgery, will have an opportunity to provide and receive feedback and or recommendations from peer physician specialists – an opportunity to learn with and from each other.

Target Audience: 

Nurse Practitioner (NP)

Nurse, Registered (RN)

Physicians (MD or DO)

Learning Objectives

After completion of this activity, learners/ attendees should be able to:

• Correlate neuroimaging to patient presentation to improve interpretation of (vascular) neuroimaging.
• Review common imaging nomenclature and terminology.
• Integrate current best practice recommendations for stroke patient management o Review social issues, age, gender, language and ethnicity impact on clinical presentation.

Assembly Bills 1195 & 241- Culturally Appropriate Care which is Free of Implicit Biases:

Learners are strongly encouraged to engage in self-directed learning related to the impact of implicit biases in this clinical area via the references provided below:

• Rinaldo, L. et al. (2019). Racial and ethnic disparities in the utilization of thrombectomy for acute stroke. Stroke; 50(9). https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/STROKEAHA.118.024651
• Reshetnyak, E. et al. (2020). Impact of multiple social determinants of health on incident stroke. Stroke; 51(8). https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/STROKEAHA.120.028530
• Churchwell, K. et al. (2020). Call to action: Structural racism as a fundamental driver of health disparities: A presidential advisory from the American Heart Association. Circulation; 142(24). https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000936

Disclosure of Financial or In-Kind Commercial Support & Conflict of Interest

No one involved in the planning or presentation of this educational activity have any relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. No financial or in-kind commercial support was received to produce or promote this educational activity.  

– Provider Designee/Verification:  Kerri Maya, MSL, RN