Trials, Imaging, Transport and Research - The Current State of Acute Stroke Care

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This National Stroke Education Center (NSEC) program serves as a state of the art description of the current landscape of acute stroke care.  The faculty members presenting in this program are experts in stroke management with backgrounds in stroke research, emergency medicine, neurocritical care, neurointervention and neurology. Through this educational program, healthcare professionals (HCPs) will improve and enhance their knowledge, competence, and clinical performance in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) care as they distill clinical data into practice-changing outcomes. This program begins with a discussion of telemedicine as it pertains to acute stroke care. The benefits and constraints of telemedicine, particularly as they relate to informed consent, are presented. Stroke center certification levels are reviewed, along with a discussion about how the certification levels facilitate access to acute stroke care through the hub-and-spoke model. The program then moves to imaging for acute ischemic strokes. There is a review of AI alerts, which should be used as a clinical support tool with clinical supervision since they can occasionally be incorrect. And finally, limitations of CT perfusion related to software differences and “noise” are discussed.  

  • How Do You Conduct Acute Stroke Trials With Telemedicine?

  • Misfires in Telemedicine-Facilitated Stroke Research: What We Have Learned

  • Telestroke Benefits and Limitations: What’s the Score?

  • Is the Future of Stroke Care Telemedicine? Is It Actually Here Already?

  • Joint Commission Stroke Center Capabilities – Why and What Are They?

  • Do the Designations Matter to EMS and the General Public? Should Everyone Know Where Their Closest Comprehensive Center Is?

  • Automated AI Alerts in Stroke Imaging: Can They Be Trusted?

  • Perfusion Processing: Current State of the Art and What is Next?

Faculty:

Yasmin N. Aziz, MD
Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Cincinnati, OH

Charles Kircher, MD, FAHA
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
University of Cincinnati College of Medicin
Neurointensivist, Gardner Neuroscience Institute
Cincinnati, OH

Christopher T. Richards, MD, MS, FAEMS, FACEP
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Medical Director, UC Health Mobile Stroke Unit
Faculty, UC Stroke Team
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

Achala Vagal, MD, MS
Vice Chair of Research
Professor of Radiology
University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH