Stroke 2025: Optimizing Outcomes with Clinical Approaches

Stroke 2025: Optimizing Outcomes with Clinical Approaches provides evidence-based, cutting edge, clinical information on treating stroke and other neurological problems in a concise, accurate, and clinically relevant format. Written and edited by leading experts in the fields of neurology and emergency medicine, Stroke 2025 is an unbiased resource for any physician or nurse working in an emergency department or stroke center. Healthcare providers can earn all of The Joint Commission-required stroke credits at one time through this electronic publication.

Stroke 2025 topics include:

1. Risk factors and management: Review cerebral microinfarcts in cancer patients, ABCD² scoring, the efficacy of statins, and ways to reduce diagnostic errors.
2. Mechanical thrombectomy (MT): Review indications for the use of MT for ischemic stroke due to large vessel occlusions, as well as clinical outcomes and future directions.
3. Treatment and outcomes: Review the latest research detailing the most effective ways to treat stroke patients.
4. Stroke in young adults: Explore how stroke in young adults differs from other age groups and how to approach treatment.

Benefits:

• This PDF book helps subscribers meet the yearly continuing education requirements to maintain The Joint Commission accreditation in one convenient publication
• Includes valuable tables, figures, charts, photographs, and images to support the information
• Easy modular format for physicians and nurses to earn stroke-specific continuing education credits
• Stroke experts summarize recently published research and provide clinically relevant commentaries, saving readers valuable time
• Promotes best practices to improve patient care for stroke patients in the hospital and after discharge

Features:

• Online modules covering stroke prevention, management and treatment, as well as detailed reviews of the latest research in stroke. Each module provides separate CME/CE credit for a total of 8 hours
• Comprehensive resource that discusses tested treatment strategies and state-of-the art techniques
• Includes valuable tables, figures, charts, photographs and images to support the information
• Provides analysis and commentary on the latest published stroke research

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Learning Objectives

• Discuss current scientific research and data regarding the diagnosis and treatment of stroke.
• Discuss the pathogenesis and treatment of stroke.
• Cite new information regarding new drugs for stroke and new uses for traditional drugs.
• Identify nonclinical issues of importance for healthcare providers who treat stroke patients.
• Discuss advances in neurointerventional treatments.

Faculty

Physician Editor
Matthew E. Fink, MD, FAAN, FAHA, FANA
Assistant Dean for Clinical Affairs, Louis and Gertrude Feil Professor and Chair, Department of Neurology; Neurologist-in-Chief, Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

Physician Peer Reviewers

Arthur R. Derse, MD, JD
Director and Professor, Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Institute for Health and Society, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Arnold Mackles, MD, MBA, LHRM
President, Innovative Healthcare Compliance Group, Palm Beach Gardens, FL

Frank Petito, MD
Professor of Clinical Neurology, Weill Cornell Medicine

Steven M. Winograd, MD, FACEP
Attending Emergency Physician, Trinity Health, Albany, NY

Susan Zhao, MD
Director, Adult Echocardiography Laboratory, Associate Chief, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center

Nurse Planners

Kay Ball, RN, PhD, CNOR, FAAN
Professor of Nursing, Otterbein University, Westerville, OH

Andrea Light, MS, RN, EMT, TCRN, CEN
Trauma Program Manager, OhioHealth Pickerington Methodist Hospital, Pickerington, OH

Aurelia Macabasco-O’Connell, PhD, ACNP-BC, RN, PHN, FAHA
Associate Professor, Azusa Pacific University School of Nursing

Susan Solverson, BSN, RN, CMSRN
Grafton, WI

Accreditation & Credit Designation Statements:

In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

The Relias LLC designates this enduring material for a maximum of 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

8 ANCC contact hours will be awarded to participants who meet the criteria for successful completion.

Approved by the American College of Emergency Physicians for 8 hours of ACEP Category I credit.

How to Earn Credits:

Physicians and nurses participate in this CME/CE activity by reading the articles, using the provided references for further research, and studying the relevant questions at the end of each module. Participants will then be directed to a website, where they will complete an online assessment to show what they’ve learned. They must score 80% on the assessment in order to complete the activity, but they are allowed to answer the questions multiple times if needed. After they have successfully completed the assessment, they will be directed to an online activity evaluation form. Once that is submitted, they will receive their certificate.

Target Audience:

This activity is intended for neurologists, emergency medicine physicians and nurses, Joint Commission-certified stroke center personnel, psychiatrists, and ear, nose, and throat physicians.

Expiration: February 28, 2028

ISBN: 978-1-941481-77-6