Stroke Virtual Grand Rounds

Webcast Series

Stroke and its potentially debilitating consequences necessitate a preemptive approach in which patients are made aware of the risk factors and early warning signs of stroke and healthcare providers respond expediently with effective therapies that will minimize residual effects and ensure the best-possible quality of life for patients who have experienced stroke. Juxtaposed with this scenario are patients who fail to recognize an impending stroke, leading to a delay in treatment and possibly irreversible neurologic damage.

This educational initiative is designed to bring healthcare providers closer to an ideal of stroke care by providing up-to-date and clinically relevant information applied to a variety of situations. These will include the diagnosis and treatment of an acute stroke in evolution, as well as transient ischemic attack, secondary stroke prevention, primary stroke prevention in association with atrial fibrillation, and stroke or myocardial infarction cross-risk with peripheral arterial disease.

In this Virtual Grand Rounds series, a panel of experts in neurology and internal medicine will offer their perspectives on a series of cases that demonstrate the myriad challenges facing physicians who treat patients with or at risk of stroke. Evidenced-based practices in specialty and primary care medicine will be integrated into these cases for the purposes of highlighting the fundamental need for a continuum of stroke care and reaching the goals of optimizing patient recovery and preventing primary and secondary stroke.

Webcasts
	Treatment Approach to a Middle-Aged Man with Carotid Artery Stenosis Osama O. Zaidat, MD, MBBS
	Estimated Time: 1 hour Release Date:  December 13, 2011 Type: Webcast	Technical Requirements: Flash Player Expiration Date:  December 13, 2013 Specialties: Neurology, Family Practice
	Peripheral Artery Disease - Underdiagnosed and Undertreated Jeffrey W. Olin, DO, FACC, FAHA
	Estimated Time: 1 hour Release Date:  October 14, 2011 Type: Webcast	Technical Requirements: Flash Player Expiration Date:  October 14, 2013 Specialties: Neurology, Family Practice, Womens Health
	A Woman with Patent Foramen Ovale and Ischemic Stroke Dara G. Jamieson, MD
	Estimated Time: 1 hour Release Date:  September 27, 2011 Type: Webcast	Technical Requirements: Flash Player Expiration Date:  September 27, 2013 Specialties: Neurology, Family Practice, Womens Health
	An Elderly Woman With Atrial Fibrillation and Cardioembolic Stroke Risk David Garcia, MD
	Estimated Time: 45 minutes Release Date:  August 4, 2011 Type: Webcast	Technical Requirements: Flash Player Expiration Date:  August 4, 2013 Specialties: Neurology, Critical Care, General Medicine, Internal Medicine & Subspecialties
	Acute Ischemic Stroke in Evolution Mark J. Alberts, MD
	Estimated Time: 45 minutes Release Date:  July 25, 2011 Type: Webcast	Technical Requirements: Flash Player Expiration Date:  July 25, 2013 Specialties: Neurology, Critical Care, General Medicine, Internal Medicine & Subspecialties
	A Middle-Aged Man With a Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) Howard S. Kirshner, MD
	Estimated Time: 30 minutes Release Date:  April 29, 2011 Type: Webcast	Technical Requirements: Flash Player Expiration Date:  April 29, 2013 Specialties: Neurology, Critical Care, General Medicine, Internal Medicine & Subspecialties

Series Objectives

1. Apply key principles of acute stroke management and secondary stroke prevention when selecting pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic therapies for individual patients.
2. Tailor secondary stroke prevention strategies to patient characteristics, medical history, and other variables that affect response to treatment.
3. Allocate and integrate specialty and primary care resources to ensure continuity of stroke care as patients are transitioned from acute to poststroke management.
4. Weigh the risks and benefits of antiplatelet therapies and other interventions in the context of evidence-based medicine to facilitate treatment decisions directed to specific populations vulnerable to stroke and other vascular events.

Target Audience

This activity is targeted to neurologists, primary care physicians, and other healthcare professionals who manage patients with cerebrovascular disease.

Ask the Expert

Using the Ask the Expert portal, participants have the opportunity to submit questions about the case to the Activity Director, Edward Manno, MD. To access this feature, begin the activity and enter your question(s) in the box at the bottom of the screen.