OVERVIEW

American Clinical Neurophysiology Society (ACNS) / Canadian Association of Neurophysiological Monitoring (CANM) Virtual Fall Courses & Symposium is organized by American Clinical Neurophysiology Society and will be held from Sep 24 - 26, 2021.

Target Audience:
The Society’s educational activities are directed to clinical neurophysiologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, physiatrists, neurosurgeons, trainees in these disciplines and other physicians and researchers who utilize clinical neurophysiologic techniques and knowledge in the diagnosis and management of patients with disorders of the peripheral and central nervous system.

Accreditation:
ACNS designates the Fall Courses for the maximum number of 49 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ indicated below:
• Advanced Neurologic Intraoperative Monitoring (NIOM): 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
• Basic EEG - Part I: 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
• Basic EEG - Part II: 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
• Basic Neurologic Intraoperative Monitoring (NIOM): 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
• CANM Symposium: 6.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
• Evoked Potentials: 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
• Intensive Care Unit EEG Monitoring (ICU EEG): 6.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
• Neonatal EEG: 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
• Sleep - Part I: 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
• Sleep - Part II: 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
• Stereo-Electroencephalography (Stereo EEG): 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

Description:
The 2021 Virtual Fall Courses & Symposium are designed around new and rapidly-evolving areas of clinical neurophysiology. Educational activities will cover both basic methodologies, and innovative techniques.

Objectives:
Intensive Care Unit EEG Monitoring (ICU EEG)
At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to:
• Recognize common indications for CEEG in the ICU setting in neonates, children, and adults;
• Interpret EEG patterns encountered in the ICU, including seizures, periodic patterns and other background patterns important for prognosis and management;
• Select appropriately-dosed treatment options for seizures and status epilepticus, and recognize the nuances in approach to treatment based on EEG findings in nonconvulsive SE, or with rhythmic/periodic patterns that lie on the ictal interictal continuum;
• Utilize quantitative EEG methods to see long-term trends, screen for seizures rapidly, and to detect signs of ischemia;
• Describe the value and limitations of EEG monitoring to predict neurologic outcomes in hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy;
• Recognize the specific EEG patterns induced by different anesthetics used in general anesthesia and in the ICU;
• Select appropriate equipment for ICU-EEG monitoring, including networking and data storage options; and
• Determine optimal staffing, data review, and reporting practices

Basic Neurophysiologic Intraoperative
Monitoring (NIOM)
At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to:
• Describe basic modalities used in NIOM;
• Recognize the appropriate methods and indications for a variety of common and uncommon NIOM techniques;
• Recognize differences in NIOM of adult and pediatric cases;
• Explain a variety of NIOM case presentations and interpretation of neurophysiologic data;
• Recognize some of the technical challenges and limitations of performing and interpreting NIOM studies; and
• Discuss relevant billing and medicolegal concerns in the field of NIOM.

Advanced Neurophysiologic Intraoperative
Monitoring (NIOM)
At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to:
• Describe basic modalities used in NIOM;
• Recognize the appropriate methods and indications for a variety of common and uncommon NIOM techniques;
• Recognize differences in NIOM of adult and pediatric cases;
• Explain a variety of NIOM case presentations and interpretation of neurophysiologic data;
• Recognize some of the technical challenges and limitations of performing and interpreting NIOM studies; and
• Discuss relevant billing and medicolegal concerns in the field of NIOM.

Stereo-Encephalography (Stereo EEG)
At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to:
• Identify the principles of SEEG;
• Discuss the approach to various epilepsy syndromes with SEEG; and
• Describe the limitations of SEEG and surgical risk.

Evoked Potentials
At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to:
• Discuss the basic principles of Evoked Potentials (EPs);
• Identify the fundamental tenets of signal generation and localization, technical considerations of stimulation and recording;
• Explain interpretation and reporting guidelines of various types of EPs; and
• Identify normal and abnormal examples presented demonstrate the utility of EPs in clinical practice.

Neonatal EEG
At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to:
• Identify normal and abnormal EEG background patterns;
• Identify normal preterm infant background patterns;
• Identify electrographic neonatal seizures; and
• Learn common neonatal seizure management strategies

Basic EEG – Parts I and II
At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to:
• Explain the basics in electroencephalography (EEG);
• Identify the fundamental tenets of signal generation, technical considerations of signal acquisition, types of EEG recordings and reporting standards;
• Recognize normal EEG examples and their variants across various age groups that are presented and contrasted with artifacts; and
• Discuss both non-epileptiform and epileptiform abnormalities that are demonstrated and their relationship with underlying neurologic disorders.

Sleep – Parts I and II
At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to:
• Explain how to record video-polysomnography and score sleep/wake states in children and adults using the AASM Scoring Manual rules;
• Discuss how and why respiratory events are scored differently in children and adults in the AASM Scoring Manual; and
• Recognize the video-polysomnographic features of NREM arousal parasomnias, REM sleep behavior disorder, and sleep-related hypermotor epilepsies