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1/23/2025 Anesthesiology Grand Rounds -Neurological Emergencies: BRAIN CODE!

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INTRODUCTION

Credit Hours: CME 1.00

Target Audience:

Anesthesiologists and anesthesiologists-in-training and other anesthesia professionals, nurse anesthetists and anesthesia assistants.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Identify and begin a brain code.
  • Review the optimal positioning and induction for Neurocritical care airways
  • Enhance comprehension of Neurocritical Care physiology

Suggested Additional Reading & Joint Accreditation Statement - Note: This Accreditation Statement Supersedes All Other Statements:

Suggested Additional Reading

  • Mistry et al, Blood Pressure Management after Endovascular therapy for Acute Ischemic stroke. JAMA 2023
  • de Oliveira et al. Critical Care Management of poor grade aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Critical Care Medicine 2016
  • Cook et al. Guidelines for the Acute treatment of cerebral edema in Neurocritical Care Patients. Neurocritical Care 2020

Joint Accreditation Statement:

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.


The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 


Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Authors:
Shaheryar Hafeez, MD — Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine & Neurology, Medical Director, Neurovascular ICU UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, Department of CCM
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.