NCS Event Calendar

One day conference intended for physicians, nurses, advanced practice nurses
and trainees.

Price: Free

Registration via Email before the conference is mandatory: Mconsiglio@mednet.ucla.edu

Zoom access (via waiting room access for registrants): https://uclahs.zoom.us/j/99610792691?pwd=YspjaAZUfazn9GcsHecMJmf0hwuA
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All times are Pacific Standard Time
Course Director: Paul Vespa, MD
Sponsoring Organization: UCLA Neurocritical Care Program

Educational Objectives:

1. Provide evidence-based treatment protocols and approaches to critical neurologic illness including ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage, brain trauma, spinal cord injury, status epilepticus, CNS infection and neurologic complications of sepsis and other critical illness.
2. Provide case-based discussions of ICU nursing care and protocols for critical neurologic illness.
3. Provide practical pearls for utilization of neurologic monitoring instruments that are crucial for the care of neurologic critical illness.

This is a non-CME conference

Preliminary Agenda:

07:30-7:55 AM (PST): Breakfast for in-person attendees
7:55 AM: Introduction and instructions
08:00 – 08:30 AM (PST): Advances in Triage for Neurological Emergencies
Paul Vespa
08:30-09:00 AM (PST): Emergency and Critical Care for Ischemic StrokeLatisha Sharma
09:00-09:30 AM (PST): Practical Pearls in Managing Post-Thrombectomy Stroke Katie Kozakowski
09:30-10:00 AM (PST): Transcranial Doppler and Bed-side Ultrasound in NCC Phoebe Johnson-Black
10:00-10:15 AM: coffee break
10:15-10:45 (PST): Emergency and Critical Care for Intracerebral Hemorrhage Manuel Blanco
10:45-11:15 (PST): Minimally invasive Surgery for intracerebral hemorrhage Paul Vespa
11:15-11:45 (PST): Critical Care for TBI
Phoebe Johnson-Black
11:45-13:00: Lunch and discussion
13:00-13:30 (PST): Practical Pearls in Monitoring and Treating ICP Jennifer Osborne
13:30-14:00 (PST): Advances in Critical Care of Spinal Cord Injury Robert Shpiner
14:30-15:00 (PST): Critical Care for Refractory Status Epilepticus Manuel Blanco
15:00-15:30 (PST): Pearls for EEG interpretation for seizures and status Paul Vespa
15:30-16:00 (PST): Multimodality Monitoring Case Studies
Paul Vespa
16:00-17:00 (PST): Hands on with bedside POC testing devices
EEG
Pupillometry
NIRS
POCUS

Invited Faculty:

Paul Vespa, MD: UCLA Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurology and Assistant
Dean of Research in Critical Care

Latisha Sharma, MD: UCLA Professor of Neurology

Phoebe Johnson-Black, MD: Harbor UCLA Assistant Professor of Neurology

Manuel Blanco, MD: UCLA Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery

Robert Shpiner, MD: UCLA Professor of Neurosurgery (Pulmonary Critical Care)

Jennifer Osborne, RN: UCLA Clinical Nurse Manager in Neurocritical Care

Katie Kozakowski, RN, CNS, NP: UCLA CNS and NP in Neuroscience