OVERVIEW

HMne-Hospital Medicine - Neurology: Headaches; Stroke; Syncope/Vertigo is organized by American Medical Seminars (AMS), Inc. This course has been approved for a maximum of 5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Original Release Date: July 1, 2020
Expiration Date: July 1, 2023

TOPIC 1 Treatment of Primary Headache Syndromes.
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: EBM, GL, COMP
• Appreciate the role of abortive therapy for migraine, tension-type, and cluster headaches.
• Recognize the range of options for pharmacologic acute and preventive therapy, as recommended by the AHS 2015 Evidence-Based recommendations for migraine, as well as options for tension-type, and cluster headaches.
• Develop non-pharmacologic treatment strategies for migraine as per the most recent Cochrane Systematic Review.

TOPIC 2 Update on the Management of Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack.
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: GL, COMP
• Assess common presentations of cerebrovascular insufficiency.
• Prescribe the initial management of patients with a suspected acute CVA.
• Apply cutting-edge strategies and therapies for the management of hemorrhagic and thrombotic strokes.
• Distinguish between stroke and TIA and appropriately assess the patient with TIA for early risk of stroke.
• Formulate an effective post-stroke secondary prevention plan as per the AHA/ASA guidelines.

TOPIC 3: The Evaluation and Management of Syncope and Vertigo.
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: GL, COMP
• Appropriately evaluate patients with syncope or vertigo.
• Formulate a diagnostic evaluation strategy for syncope or vertigo that is based on best practices and the 2017 ACC/AHA/HRS guidelines.
• Debate the value of the various diagnostic approaches to the workup of syncope.
• Prescribe an effective therapeutic strategy for the management of both syncope and vertigo per the 2017 ACC/AHA/HRS guidelines.

ACCREDITATION & CREDITS

5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

FACULTY

Gerald William Smetana

MD, MACPInternal Medicine

Kendal P. Williams

MD, MPHHospital Medicine, Internal Medicine

TARGET AUDIENCE

Physician

SPECIALITIES

Hospital MedicineNeurology

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