Is There a Neurologist in the House? A Summary of the Current State of Neurovascular Rotations for Emergency Medicine Residents.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Neurovascular and neurocritical care emergencies constitute a leading cause of morbidity/mortality. There has been great evolution in this field, including but not limited to extended time-window therapeutic interventions for acute ischemic stroke. The intent of this article is to evaluate the goals and future direction of clinical rotations in neurovascular and neurocritical care for emergency medicine (EM) residents.

Methods

A panel of 13 board-certified emergency physicians from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) neurologic emergencies interest group (IG) convened in response to a call for publications-three with fellowship training/board certification in stroke and/or neurocritical care; five with advanced research degrees; three who have been

SUBMITTER: Wira CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6304277 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature