Miami Neuro Symposium, Eighth Annual, and Neuro Nursing Symposium, Sixth Annual

Miami Neuro and Neuro Nursing Symposium is organized by Baptist Health South Florida and will be held from Nov 06 - 08, 2019 at Hilton Miami Dadeland, Miami, Florida, United States of America.

Miami Neuro Overview

November 7-8, 2019 | Thursday-Friday     

This symposium will focus on recent advances in caring for neurology patients, stroke management, neuro-critical care, neuro-imaging, epilepsy and movement disorders, neuro-imaging and neuro-oncology.? The expert faculty will engage participants through complex cases, novel treatment strategies and lively panel discussions. ????????????????????????????????????????????????

Miami Neuro Nursing Overview

Improving the Quality of Neuroscience Patient Care - November 6, 2019? | Wednesday 

The symposium offers a broad neuroscience curriculum focusing on state-of-the-art, evidence-based practices for nurses and other healthcare professionals. The expert faculty will discuss the care and management of stroke, epilepsy, neurosurgical and critical care neuroscience patients from the nursing perspective. In addition, there will be specialized focus groups moderated by subject matter experts. The goal is to share the most innovative and evidence-based clinical practices to optimize patient outcomes through all areas of neuroscience.

Topics: Pre-Hospital Stroke Evaluation, Stroke Imaging, Assessment and Management, NIHSS, Status Epilepticus, Stroke Certification, Complex Spine Patient and Parkinson's Disease. 

Who Should Attend:
• Adult and Pediatric Neurologists
• Neurosurgeons
• Stroke Neurologists
• Neuroradiologists
• Diagnostic Radiologists
• Critical Care Physicians
• Neurointensivists
• Emergency Medicine Physicians
• Internal Medicine Physicians
• Interventional Neuroradiologists
• Family Physicians
• General Internists
• Neuropsychologists
• Critical Care and Neuroscience Nurses
• Neurosurgery Nurses
• Nurse Practitioners
• Nurses
• Clinical Pharmacists
• Rehabilitation and Pain Management Specialists
• As well as other specialists interested in the field of neuroscience
• Neuro-oncologist

Accreditation:
Baptist Health provides accredited continuing education (CME/CE) to doctors, nurses and allied health professionals.
Baptist Health South Florida designates this live activity for a maximum of 18 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.?

Osteopathic Medicine, Podiatric Medicine, Psychology and Physician Assistants
This activity has been approved for 18 credit hours by the Florida Boards of Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine, Podiatric Medicine, Psychology and the Florida Council of Physician Assistants.

Dietary
This activity has been approved by the Commission on Dietetic Registration for 18 CPEUs. 

Nursing
This activity has been approved for a total of 18 contact hours by Florida State Board of Nursing.  6 Credits for Wednesday (CE Broker #20-731928), 6 Credits for Thursday (CE Broker #20-731952) and 6 Credits for Friday (CE Broker #20-731960). 

Pharmacy
This activity has been approved for 18 contact hours by the Florida State Board of Pharmacy. 6 Credits for Wednesday (CE Broker #20-731928), 6 Credits for Thursday (CE Broker #20-731952) and 6 Credits for Friday (CE Broker #20-731960). 

Respiratory Therapy
This activity has been approved for a total of 18 contact hours for respiratory therapy personnel in the category of personal growth by the State of Florida, AHCA provider #RCE58.  6 Credits for Wednesday (CE Broker #20-731928), 6 Credits for Thursday (CE Broker #20-731952) and 6 Credits for Friday (CE Broker #20-731960).

Description:
Miami Neuro Symposium: This symposium will focus on recent advances in caring for neurology patients, stroke management, neuro-critical care, neuro-imaging, epilepsy, and movement disorders. The expert faculty will engage participants through complex cases, novel treatment strategies, and lively panel discussions.

Neuro Nursing: Nurses are a crucial part of treatment and recovery of neuroscience patients. The Neuroscience Nursing Symposium offers a broad curriculum focusing on state-of-the-art evidence-based practices for nursing and other healthcare professionals who treat and care for neuroscience patients. The program will address the treatment and nursing care of the neuroscience patient from the emergency department through rehabilitation. The expert faculty will educate the audience about nursing issues related to neurological complications, hypothermia, stroke, epilepsy, rehabilitation and pharmacologic management of neuroscience patients. The goal of the program is to share the most innovative and evidenced-based clinical practices that have been implemented and are available to optimize patient outcomes throughout all areas of neuroscience.

Educational Objectives:
Wednesday, November 6, Miami Neuro Nursing Symposium - Eighth Annual (6 Cat. 1)
Upon completion of this session, participants should be better able to:
• Describe experiences shared by stroke survivors that identify strategies they found useful to cope with the diagnosis.
• Recognize the importance of a pre-hospital stroke evaluation to ensure that patients receive timely diagnosis and treatment.
• Describe the imaging modalities used to diagnose acute stroke.
• Recognize the utility and indications of imaging results in acute stroke.
• Determine the precise etiology of a stroke in order to minimize complications and prevent recurrence.
• Describe the use of antithrombotic treatments for patients in the first days after acute ischemic stroke onset.
• Recognize the importance of evaluating patients who present to the clinic with neurologic symptoms that may be consistent with stroke.
• Recognize the clinical features and diagnosis of convulsive status epilepticus in adults
• Explain how causes, prognoses and treatments of status epilepticus differ in adults, and describe optimal evaluation and treatment requirements.
• Demonstrate how to prepare for sustained success in certified stroke centers.
• Recognize best practices for maintaining high-reliability stroke centers.
• Explain the evaluation and initial management of injuries to the cervical spinal column in adults, including the appropriate use of imaging studies.
• Recognize the clinical presentation of movement disorders: Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor and dystonia.
• Demonstrate the need for timely medical management of Parkinson’s disease and determine what medications to avoid.
• Demonstrate proper guidance on how to manage the family and patient regarding postoperative expectations.

Thursday, November 7, Miami Neuro Symposium - Ninth Annual (Day 1) (6 Cat. 1) 
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this session, participants should be better able to:
• Recognize triage patients who are possible candidates for IV TPA or endovascular treatment as stroke alerts.
• Describe proper patient selection of patients for IV TPA.
• Describe proper selection of patients for endovascular treatment.
• Explain common pitfalls for patient selection.
• Recognize and comply with Baptist Health’s stroke policy regarding acute stroke treatments.
• Examine the proper imaging workup in patients presenting with symptoms and signs of acute ischemic stroke.
• Recognize the advantages and disadvantages of CTA.
• Explain the pitfalls of CT perfusion.
• Analyze randomized trials, real-life registries and new devices in acute stroke thrombectomy.
• Recognize how antiplatelet therapy reduces the incidence of stroke in patients at high risk for atherosclerosis and in those with known symptomatic cerebrovascular disease.
• Identify several “rare” causes of stroke that most neurologists will encounter and describe the management of these conditions.
• Analyze current information on the efficacy and safety of procedures used for intracranial endovascular interventional treatment of cerebrovascular diseases and summarize key aspects of best practice.
• Assess recent data relevant to new technologies and emerging treatment strategies in cerebral arteriovenous malformations.
• Examine recent research advances in intracerebral hematoma and describe current management strategies. 
• Illustrate a contemporary, evidence-based outline of the perioperative critical care management of patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage.
• Describe the evaluation and management of hematologic disorders associated with stroke. 
• Recognize the evaluation and management of heparin-induced-thrombocytopenia. 
• Identify common risk factors for PRES, RCVS and vasculitis. 
• Recognize typical and atypical presentation of PRES, RCVS and vasculitis. 

Friday, November 8, Miami Neuro Symposium (Day 2) (6 Cat. 1)  
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this session, participants should be better able to:
• Explain multiple modalities of treatments that are of increasing interest in epilepsy.
• Describe recent behavioral clinical trials in epilepsy, including cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, progressive muscle relaxation and self-management. 
• Explain why new therapies such as calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) antagonists and neuromodulation devices are needed for the treatment of migraine.
• Describe CGRP antagonist treatments for patients with migraine.
• Examine neuromodulation treatments for patients with migraine.
• Review the American Headache Society’s position statement on integrating new migraine treatments into clinical practice.
• Describe various types of status epilepticus and explain appropriate treatment approaches. 
• Distinguish primary from secondary headaches.
• Examine an algorithmic approach to classifying and diagnosing primary headache disorders.
• Analyze diagnostic criteria for chronic migraine and other types of primary chronic daily headache.
• Recognize risk factors for migraine chronification. 
• Explain how to formulate a multidisciplinary treatment plan for patients with migraine.
• Examine the medical literature about the use of cannabis as a potential treatment for adults with essential tremor and appropriately disseminate information to patients regarding its use.
• Analyze current, clinical, state-of-the-art functional neurosurgery in the treatment of Parkinson's disease, tremor and dystonia.
• Demonstrate the importance of continuous objective measures in the optimal selection of deep brain stimulation candidates with Parkinson’s disease.
• Explain the recent technical advances in deep brain stimulation. 
• Examine the epidemiology, diagnosis and differential diagnosis of neuromuscular disorders.  
• Evaluate the clinical features of ALS.
• Accurately diagnose and manage the early cognitive manifestations of dementias.
• Recognize clinical, diagnostic and pathological aspects of specific dementia syndromes and describe the treatment, risk factors and prevention.
• Describe the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of multiple sclerosis and examine treatment options for acute exacerbations.  
• Recognize anti-seizure effects of cannabis and its use in treatment of Lennox Gastaut and Dravet syndromes.
• Critically examine the expanding range of evidence on the efficacy of these compounds in the management of different seizure types and epilepsy syndromes. 
• Examine the medical literature about the use of cannabis in other neurological conditions and appropriately disseminate information to patients regarding its use.

Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.