All neurosurgical practices deal with neurosurgical emergencies. This course is designed for neurosurgeons, neurosurgery advanced practice providers (APPs), neurologists, intensivists, and emergency medicine physicians.  It provides information about state-of-the-art diagnosis, workup and first-line treatments for neurosurgical emergencies.  Covered in detail are: resuscitation, advances in stroke management, the ever-changing landscape of anticoagulation, TBI, spine trauma, postoperative management, prognosis, and the care of the elderly with neurosurgical issues. Learning will be enhanced with active teaching techniques including case-based discussions as well as instruction by world experts.

This is a good crash course for medical students and residents on how to be effective in the emergency operating room and a good primer for junior residents on seeing neurosurgical patients in the ER.

Learning Objectives:

• Improved ability to describe and distinguish state-of-the-art surgery for all spine trauma and spinal cord injury.
• Increased confidence in implementing the correct treatment of hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke.
• Increased knowledge from the trauma of blood thinners prior to and after intracranial hemorrhage.
• Improve ability to manage neurosurgical patients in the postoperative period.
• Increase knowledge of prognosis and the effect of age on neurological injury.