Race Against the Clock: Overcoming Challenges in the Management of Anticoagulant-Associated Intracerebral Hemorrhage

 

 

Release Date: August 1, 2014

Last Review: October 25, 2013

Expiration Date: July 31, 2015

Estimated Time to Complete this CME Activity: 1.5 hours

Media/Method of Participation: Journal Article, Web-based posttest, and evaluation

Hardware/Software Requirements: Any Web browser

*This activity expired for credit on July 31, 2015 and is no longer available for credit

 

This activity has been designed to meet the educational needs of neurosurgeons, residents, fellows, neurosurgical nurses, and physician assistants interested in the practice and business of neurosurgery.

 

Neurosurgeons are intimately involved in the emergency management of anticoagulant-treated patients who present with an intracerebral hemorrhage requiring urgent correction of their coagulopathy to prevent worsening hemorrhage and to facilitate surgical intervention as necessary. A number of therapies have been used alone or in combination for the treatment of anticoagulant-associated intracerebral hemorrhage (AAICH) to reverse anticoagulation in order to achieve hemodynamic stability, limit hematoma expansion, and prepare the patient for potential neurologic surgery. Given the essential role of the neurosurgeon, in consult with the emergency department physician, in managing these patients, this enduring activity will elucidate warfarin reversal strategies (and related current controversies) with available and soon-to-be-available therapies for the management of AAICH, and the importance of timely intervention in order to achieve successful reversal of warfarin-induced coagulopathy.

 

Upon proper completion of this enduring material, participants should be better able to:

Professor of Neurosurgery

Thomas Jefferson University

Philadelphia, PA

Co-Director, Brain and Spine Center

Lankenau Medical Center

Wynnewood, PA

 

Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Perelman School of Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine

Pennsylvania Hospital

Philadelphia, PA

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Melissa Milan, MD
Alisa Schaefer, PhD
 

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Scientific Directors, Melissa Milan, MD, and Alisa Schaefer, PhD have no financial conflicts to disclose.

 

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Sean D. Lavine, MD-Independent Peer Reviewer
Director, Endovascular Neurosurgery
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
New York, NY
Secretary, AANS/CNS Executive Council of Cerebrovascular Surgery
No financial conflicts to disclose.

 

Professor of Medicine

Hofstra North Shore/LIJ

School of Medicine

New York, NY

 

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