2023 Annual Meeting Program Package

Target Audience:

This activity is designed for physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare specialists, including residents/fellows, who care for patients requiring neurocritical care.

Objectives:

• Discern clinical practice and challenges for neurocritical care patients around the globe.
• Identify best practice strategies and clinical challenges when caring for neurocritical care patients with traumatic brain injury, intracranial hemorrhage, stroke, and central nervous system infections.
• Examine ongoing clinical trials, controversies in clinical practice and end-of-life decision-making strategies in the care of patients with neurologic injury.
• Determine opportunities to use neuromonitoring, informatics, genomics, and quality metrics in the neuroscience ICU to improve quality of care.
• Identify the challenges and strategies for prognostication and management of critically ill patients with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, near-brain dead conditions, and post-ICU syndrome.

Activity Goal:

This activity is designed to address the following core and team competencies: Patient Care, Medical Knowledge, Professional, Employ Evidence-based Practice, Value & Ethics, Team & Teamwork, Interprofessional Collaboration, and Interprofessional Communication.

Non-Endorsement Statement:

The accredited provider verifies that sound education principles have been demonstrated in the development of this educational offering as evidenced by the review of its objectives, teaching plan, faculty, and activity evaluation process. The accredited provider does not endorse or support the actual opinions or material content as presented by the speaker(s) and/or sponsoring organization.

Disclosures:

The accredited provider adheres to accreditation requirements regarding industry support of continuing medical education. Disclosure of the planning committee and faculty's commercial relationships will be made known at the activity. Speakers are required to openly disclose any limitations of data and/or any discussion of any off-label, experimental, or investigational uses of drugs or devices in their presentations. - All employees in control of content have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated. The following participants have No Relevant Financial Relationships to Disclose: Gabriela Aklepi; Ayham Alkhachroum; Colleen Barthol; Lourdes Carhuapoma; Julia Carlson; Caroline Der-Nigoghossian; Julia Durrant; Sara Hocker; Matthew Jaffa; Satabdi Pulakanti; Giselle Silva David Greer: PI - Intrepid

All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated. 

Accreditation: 

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by CineMed and the Neurocritical Care Society. CineMed 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.

Claiming CE Credit Requirements:

The learner must review each presentation and complete a certification survey to achieve certification of completion and earn 12 continuing-education credits. Upon successful completion of the evaluation, a certificate will be generated. You will have the option to download the certificate for your records, and it will also continue to be available within your profile. NCS provides certification information to the accredited provider on a monthly basis.

All content is the copyrighted material of the ©2025 Neurocritical Care Society.

Physicians:

CineMed designates this enduring material for a maximum of 12 AMA PRA Category 1Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses:

This educational activity is approved for 12 contact hours for nurses.

Pharmacists:

This activity has been accredited for 1.2 CEU (12 credit hours) of continuing education credit.
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Note: Credits will be reported into CPE Monitor within 60 days of activity completion.

Other Healthcare Providers:

All other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for activities designated for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, consult your professional licensing board.

Support:

This activity is provided independent of industry support.

CME Information

Release Date: January 1, 2024

Expiration Date: January 1, 2027

Hardware / Software Requirements

• An internet connection speed of at least 4Mbps and a modern browser
• Modern browsers have a built in PDF reader which would be necessary for you to view your completion certificates