Brain Death Determination: A Comprehensive Simulation Workshop
OVERVIEW
Brain death assessment and determination require thorough knowledge, as well as technical and interpersonal skills to assure accurate diagnosis and optimize family understanding and acceptance. This workshop aims to provide attendees with a comprehensive experience that will enhance confidence in brain death determination and management.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Physicians and Advance Practice Registered Nurses in neurology, neurosurgery, pulmonology, intensivist, critical care, trauma surgery and/or emergency or internal medicine interested in a comprehensive experience that will enhance confidence with brain death diagnosis and management.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Recognize when to initiate brain death studies and how to determine prerequisites for beginning the brain death exam.
• Recall all of the necessary steps in conducting a thorough and accurate clinical exam to determine brain death diagnosis following the AAN revised guidelines.
• Effectively communicate grave prognosis to families in a sensitive but definitive way, allowing for understanding of patient death.
REGISTRATION
• Corewell Health Provider: $0 (must be signed in using organizational ID)
• Non-Corewell Health Provider (External): $25 + additional $60 if CME/CE credit is requested
Advance registration is required.
Panayiotis Varelas, MD, PhD, FAAN, FNCS
Gift of Life is pleased to welcome Panayiotis Varelas, MD, back to Michigan to direct this program.
Dr. Varelas currently serves as the Bender Endowed Chair of Neurology at Albany Medical College. A neurointensivist, Dr. Varelas established and served as director of the neuro intensive care unit at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, prior to his move to Albany, New York.
Dr. Varelas contributed to the new AAN Guidelines (October 2023) on the determination of brain death/death by neurologic criteria.
Dr. Varelas received his medical education at the University of Athens, after which he became an officer in the Greek Air Force, before completing a research fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine, a residency in Neurology at Yale and a Neurocritical Care Fellowship at Johns Hopkins.
Event Registration Assistance
While Corewell Health is providing CME and handling registration, this event is open to providers from all hospitals and health systems!
If you need assistance with registration, contact [email protected] - they will know where you are in process and be able to provide guidance.
Once successfully registered, you will receive a confirmation email from Beaumont CME <[email protected]>. If you do not see the email in your inbox, please check your junk/spam folder.
Tuesday, October 29
ROYAL OAK
Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital
Applebaum Simulation Learning Institute
8 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Thursday, October 31
GRAND RAPIDS
Grand Valley State University
Cook-Devos Center, Interprofessional Simulation Center
8 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
CME
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Beaumont Health and Gift of Life Michigan. Beaumont Health 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.
Medicine CME: Beaumont Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 4.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nursing CE: Beaumont Health designates this activity for a maximum of 4.0 ANCC contact hours. Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
FACULTY
Course director:
- Panayiotis Varelas, MD, PhD, FAAN, FNCS
Course faculty:
- Tamer Abdelhak, MD
- Mohammed Rehman, DO
- Jody Wellwood, MSN, ACNP, CNRN
Cancellation Policy
Cancellations or refund requests must be received by 10/25/2024. Cancellation or refund requests after 10/25/2024 will not be honored.
To cancel a registration, please send an email to [email protected] with the name of the activity and “Cancellation” in the subject line.
Contact
General Event Info: Kandace Novotny at [email protected] or 313-300-7071
CMEs/CEs: [email protected]
