9th Annual Cleveland Neurocritical Care Conference

After attending this program participants will be able to:

•    Review the indications for admission for patients presenting with TIAs
•    Recognize indications for use of dabigatran versus warfarin
•    Review the workup and management of patients with cryptogenic stroke
•    Review the best treatment of acute carotid artery occlusion
•    Review how best to diagnose and treat migraine-related stroke
•    Compare and contrast the various methods of reversing anticoagulation
•    Review the best treatment of intracerebral hemorrhage
•    Understand prognostication in patients with stroke and cardiac arrest
•    Identify DVT prophylaxis methods for patients with stroke
•    Review the latest updates in induced hypothermia for cardiac arrest and stroke

4th Annual CWRU Critical Care Bioinformatics Workshop

After attending this program participants will be able to:

•    Understand the current state of the information architecture in the ICU
•    Identify current challenges in data acquisition and analysis in critical care
•    Review advances in data integration developed on the battlefield
•    Identify emerging tools to integrate data from multiple sources
•    Understand how complex systems analysis can be used to forecast physiology in the ICU

3rd Annual CWRU TCD Ultrasound Workshop

After attending this program participants will be able to:

•    Understand the underlying principles of TCD Sonography
•    Recognize the role of TCD in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage
•    Review the role of TCD in patients with increased ICP and brain death
•    Understand the role of emboli monitoring with TCD sonography
•    Review how to best document, code and bill for TCD services

2nd Annual Cleveland Music and Medicine Symposium

After attending this program participants will be able to:

•    Review the underlying neuroanatomy of music
•    Identify how rhythmic beat and tonal mode signify emotion
•    Understand the emotional impact of major and minor triads
•    Understand aural and kinesthetic relationships in music
•    Review the art and mental process of composing - transforming musical ideas into notation
•    Review the art and mental process of conducting - transforming notation into musical experience
•    Identify overuse syndromes in string players and learn how to avoid and treat them
•    Identify vocal survival techniques to avoid voice injury
•    Review the power of music therapy in healing patients
•    Understand the condition of amusia and the insights it gives into the evolution of music