2024 UPMC Neuroscience Conference
Neuroscience nursing care is a unique and demanding specialty requiring nursing staff to be up-to-date with the latest developments in neurosurgical, neurotrauma, stroke, and neuroscience patient care. This educational activity will provide nurses with the opportunity to learn from providers leading efforts to revolutionize interventions and treatments in this field. Augmented reality is becoming increasingly incorporated in the medical field to assist surgeons with performing high-quality procedures through easily accessing and incorporating patient imaging in the operative setting. Minimally-invasive techniques are further developing to incorporate the use of lasers—specifically, laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT)—preserving as much brain parenchyma as possible while decreasing the need for large surgical incisions. Significant advancement in stroke patient care has been made in recent decades. Specific focus on primary stroke prevention has resulted in new techniques to treat carotid artery disease through the use of transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR) procedure. Lastly, while treatment options are necessary in the neuroscience field, diagnostics play and equally integral part in the comprehensive care of neurotrauma patients. Advancement of biomarker knowledge has demonstrated potential diagnostic tools to be used in effectively determining if neurological trauma has occurred.
Target Audience
Nurse
Learning Objectives
Explore new techniques to enhance neurosurgical procedures using augmented reality (AR).
Describe details of minimally-invasive procedures utilizing laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) in the neurosurgical oncology patient population.
Identify nursing care considerations for patients who undergo transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR) procedure.
Correlate the use of biomarkers for diagnosing neurological trauma through the use serum testing.
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Neuroscience nursing care is a unique and demanding specialty requiring nursing staff to be up-to-date with the latest developments in neurosurgical, neurotrauma, stroke, and neuroscience patient care. This educational activity will provide nurses with the opportunity to learn from providers leading efforts to revolutionize interventions and treatments in this field. Augmented reality is becoming increasingly incorporated in the medical field to assist surgeons with performing high-quality procedures through easily accessing and incorporating patient imaging in the operative setting. Minimally-invasive techniques are further developing to incorporate the use of lasers—specifically, laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT)—preserving as much brain parenchyma as possible while decreasing the need for large surgical incisions. Significant advancement in stroke patient care has been made in recent decades. Specific focus on primary stroke prevention has resulted in new techniques to treat carotid artery disease through the use of transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR) procedure. Lastly, while treatment options are necessary in the neuroscience field, diagnostics play and equally integral part in the comprehensive care of neurotrauma patients. Advancement of biomarker knowledge has demonstrated potential diagnostic tools to be used in effectively determining if neurological trauma has occurred.
Dr. Edward Andrews
Dr. David Okonkwo
Dr. Natalie Sridharan
Dr. Kalil Abdullah
In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh 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.
Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 5.0 contact hours.
Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
Available Credit
- 5.00 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 5.00 Attendance