Cardiovascular Health and Disease Grand RoundsCourse Directors: Charles Hattemer, MD and Phillip Owens, III, PhDConference Coordinator: Nicole Held

The range of topics will consist of diagnosing AIS, therapeutic interventions per the American Stroke Association guidelines, trying to establish consistency across hospitals, and some of the medical and legal conundrums associated with the management of these patients in the ED setting, all done through a case-based approach.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 795,000 people have a stroke each year in the United States. Every 4 minutes, an individual dies from a stroke. The financial impact of strokes on the healthcare system is staggering, with an estimated $34 billion spent annually in the US, which includes the cost of healthcare services, medicines to treat stroke patients, and lost productivity. Although hemorrhagic strokes comprise only 13% of all strokes, they are part...

For the emergency physician, hospitalist, and critical care physician, upper GI or lower GI Bleeding can represent a life-threatening emergency in the anticoagulated patient presenting to the emergency department or intensive care unit,  In this CME-based educational program, the clinician is provided with multiple cases of patients with life-threatening GI bleedingThe development of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs), such as dabigatran, betrixaban, rivaroxaban, apixaban, and edoxaban, rep...