Neurological Emergencies

This special Harvard Medical School CME program is uniquely designed to provide updates, best practices, and ready-to-use algorithms to diagnose neurological symptoms, quickly identify a neurological emergency, and take appropriate measures to optimize patient outcomes. This program ensures participants are prepared to: Better evaluate high-frequency neurological symptoms and high-risk neurological conditions; Avoid misdiagnosis in neurological emergencies; Quickly identify a neurological emergency and act in the first hours to optimize patient outcomes in the emergency, inpatient, and outpatient settings; Optimize your use of CT/CTA (including what to order and how to interpret results); Optimize your use of MRI (including what to order, when to order, and when NOT to order); Optimize patient safety; and Better understand and mitigate liability.

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