7TH ANNUAL NEUROCRITICAL CARE SOCIETY MEETING

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

INTRACEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE

Spot Sign:  What is it, and What Should I Do About It?  Joshua N. Goldstein, MD
Medical Management of ICH:  The First 24 Hours  Peter J. Andrews, MD
When (if ever) is Surgery Indicated for ICH?  E. Sander Connolly, Jr., MD

SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE
Prevention of Rebleeding:  Medical and Surgical Approaches  Wendy Wright, MD
Medical Complications of SAH  Nerissa Ko, MD
2009 AHA SAH Guidelines:  An Update  Michael Diringer, MD

STATUS EPILEPTICUS

Treatment of SE:  Ketamine, Hypothermia, and Beyond  Panayiotis Varelas, MD, PhD
Novel Treatments for SE:  Ketamine, Hypothermia, and Beyond  Thomas P. Bleck, MD
The EEG Ictal-interical Continuum:  A Clinical Challenge  Lawrence Hirsch, MD

TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY

What's New in TBI  Geoff Manley, MD, PhD
Surgery for TBI:  What Neurointensivists Don't Know but Should  Alex Valadka, MD
How Systemic Trauma Influences Brain Injury  Kristine O'Phelan, MD

NEUROMUSCULAR RESPIRATORY FAILURE

NPPV for Neuromuscular Disease:  Why or Why Not?  Alejandro Rabinstein, MD
Immunomodulatory Therapy for MG and GBS  Allan Ropper, MD
Tracheostomy:  Timing, Technique, and Troubleshooting  David Seder, MD

PEDIATRIC NEUROCRITICAL CARE

Organizing a Pediatric Neurocritical Care Service  Steven Weinstein, MD
Approach to Treating the Brain-Injured Child  James J. Riviello, Jr., MD
CPP and ICP:  How Children Differ from Adults  Michael J. Bell, MD

PRESSURE DROP:  BP OPTIMIZATION IN THE NICU

Use of Multimodality Monitoring to Identify Individualized CPP Targets  J. Claude Hemphill, III, MD
Choose Yoiur Weapon:  Selecting an Antihypertensive Agent  Carmen Graffagnino, MD

Thursday, November 12, 2009

THE LUNG BONE'S CONNECTED TO THE BRAIN BONE: BRAIN-LUNG INTERACTIONS

General Approach to Ventilating the Comatose Patient William M. Coplin, MD
ICP, Head Position, and PEEP Mark J. Rosen, MD
ARDS after TBI: A Question of Balance Peter J. Andrews, MD
Aspiration and VAP in Patients with Brain Injury David Zygun, MD
Wake Up and Breath: Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH

2009 OPENING ADDRESS: 
Teambuilding in a Complex ICU Environment  Maurene Harvey, RN, MPH, FCCM

2009 SOCIETY LECTURE:
Madness and Morbidity:  How Critical Illness Affects the Brain  E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH

2009 SPECIAL LECTURE:
Reanimator:  The New Science of Recovery from Coma  Nicholas Schiff, MD

NEUROANESTHESIA: INTERFACE BETWEEN THE OR AND ICU

Cerebral Autoregulation: Time to Revise Our Thinking?  John Drummond, MD
Optimizing the High-Risk Patient for Surgery  Andrew Kofke, MD
Intraoperative Brain Monitoring  Marek A. Mirski, MD, PhD 
Temperature Optimization and Brain Surgery  Michael Todd, MD
Anesthesia Risks:  Craniotomy versus Interventional Procedures  Eric Heyer, MD, PhD

ORAL ABSTRACTS SESSION I

• Impact of Induced Hypertension on Cerebral Oxygen Delivery in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage  Michael Diringer, MD
• National Trend in Incidence, Cost and Discharge Disposition after Subdural Hemorrhage from 1998 - 2007  Jennifer Frontera, MD
• Phenylephrine Infusion Prevents Impairment of Cerebral Autoregulation During Hypotension after Brain Injury in Female But Aggravates Impairment in Male Piglets Through Modulation of ERK MAPK Upregulation  William Armstead, PhD
• Hypertensive Hypervolemic Vasodilatory (HHVD) Therapy with Intravenous Nicardipine for the Treatment of Cerebral Vasopsasm  Benjamin Emanuel, DO
• Clevidipine Rapidly and Safely Reduces Blood Pressure in Patients with Acute Intracerebral Hemorrhage:  Interim Results of the ACCELERATE Trial –First Clinical Experience in ICH  Carmelo Graffagnino, MD
• Prediction of Angiographic Vasospasm after Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage:  Value of the Hijdra Sum Scoring System  Stefan Dupont, MD, PhD
• Subarachnoid Hemorrhage:  Who Dies, and Why?  Ten Year Experience of the Columbia University SAH Outcomes Project  Stephan Mayer, MD
• Behavioral Changes Of Vasospasm Reversed by Neutrophil Depletion in a Mouse Model of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (SAH)  J. Javier Provencio, MD

MONITORING AND IMAGING IN THE FUTURE NEURO-ICU

Continuous EEG:  Surface and Depth  Jan Claassen, MD
Portable CT in the ICU:  Does it Improve Safety?  Michael Diringer, MD
Thermodilution CBF and Brain Tissue Oxygen Monitoring  Geoff Manley, MD, PhD

Friday, November 13, 2009

NEUROCRITICAL CARE MYTHOLOGY

Prophylactic Antibiotics Prevent Ventriculitis  Andrew Naidech, MD
Aggressive Fever Control is Beneficial  Neeraj Badjatia, MD
Coma Patients Require Seizure Prophylaxis  Axel J. Rosengart, MD, PhD
We Can Accurately Predict Prognosis from Coma  Nicholas Schiff, MD
Doctors Run ICUs  DaiWai Olson, PhD, RN

SPECIAL ORAL PLATFORM SESSION:  WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA?

• Randomized Two Arm Trial Comparing Differing Prophylactic Antibiotic Strategies after EDV Placement  L. Keith Scott, MD, FCCM
• The Brain Oxygen and Outcome in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (BOOST) Study:  A Multi Center, Prospective, Phase III Randomized, Clinical Trial to Compare Brain Oxygen Based Therapy to Conventional ICP/CPP Therapy for Severe Traumatic Brain Injury  Peter LeRoux, MD
• Thermoregulation after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (THRASH)  Neeraj Badjatia, MD, MSc
• A Randomized Trial of Intraventricular Thrombolysis for Improved Functional Outcome in High Grade Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage  Wengui Yu, MD, PhD
• INR Normalization in Patients with Coumadin Related Intracranial Hemorrhages - The INCH Trial:  A Randomized Controlled Trial to Compare Safety and Preliminary Efficacy of Fresh Frozen Plasma and Prothrombin Complex  Thorsten Steiner, MD, PhD
• Improving Platelet Activity for Cerebral Hemorrhage Treatment (IMPACT)  Andrew Naidech, MD, MSPH
• Optimizing Therapeutic Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest; Evaluating Optimum Induction Methodology and Dosing of Therapeutic Hypothermia Following Cardiac Arrest  Carmelo Graffagnino, MD

ORAL ABSTRACTS SESSION II

• The Effect of Packed Red Blood Cell Transfusion on Cerebral Oxygenation and Metabolism after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage  Raimund Helbok, MD
• Clinical Attributes Influencing Time to Death after Withdrawal of Care in Neurological ICU Patients with Possible Implications for DCD Protocols  Alan Yee, DO
• Comparison of Prognostic Accuracy between Neurointensivists and General Intensivists in Critically Ill Neurological Patients  Anna Finley Caulfield, MD
• Use of a Commercial Surface Cooling Device for Therapeutic Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest:  Efficacy and Safety Considerations  Salam Jarrah, DO, MPH
• Predictors of Poor Neurological Outcome in Comatose Survivors Treated with Hypothermia after Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation  Edgar Samaniego, MD, MS
• Neurological Recovery and Neural Spike Firing Rates with Therapeutic Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest in Rats  Nitish Thakor
• Prediction Rules for Admission Surveillance Cultures for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) and Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE) in a Neurocritical Care Unit  Wendy Ziai, MD, MPH
• Are Initial Radiographic and Clinical Scales Associated with Subsequent Brain Oxygen Levels after Severe Traumatic Brain Injury?  Michael Katsnelson, MD

IMPLEMENTING THERAPEUTICS AT THE BEDSIDE:  PUTTING THEORY INTO PRACTICE

Top 10 Neuro-ICU Pharmacotherapy Pearls  Denise Rhoney, PharmD, FCCM, FCCP
Hypothermia and Shivering Management  Mary Presciutti, BSN, RN
Surgical Strategies:  "Now you call me?"  Peter LeRoux, MD, FACS
Beyond the Swann:  Non-invasive Hemodynamic Monitoring  Laura McIlvoy, PhD, RN, CCRN, CNRN
Multimodality Monitoring:  Making Sense of the Numbers  Peter LeRoux, MD, FACS

Saturday, November 14, 2009

ORAL ABSTRACTS SESSION III

• Utility of Color Density Spectral Array vs. Amplitude-Integrated EEG for Seizure Identification in the ICU  Cecil Hahn, MD, MPH
• Impact of Glucose Variability on In-Hospital Mortality Following Acute Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage (sICH)  Xi Liu-DeRyke, PharmD
• Intensive Insulin Therapy in the Neurocritical Care Setting is Associated with Poor Clinical Outcomes  DaiWai Olson, PhD, RN, CCRN
• Prospective, Randomized, Single-Blinded Comparative Trial of IV Levetiracetam vs. Phenytoin for Seizure Prophylaxis  Lori Shutter, MD
• Seizure detection using Digital Trends Analysis: Rapid Interpretation in the Intensive Care Unit  Cigdem Akman, MD
• Intensive vs. Conventional Insulin Therapy in Critically Ill Neurologic Patients  Deborah Green, MD
• The Enhancement of Organ Donor Conversion Through Diminished Decoupling  Diana Greene-Chandos, MD
• Emergent Warfarin Anticoagulation Reversal with Recombinant Factor VIIa Reduces Mortality In Acute Subdural Hematoma  Clay Evans 

NEUROCRITICAL CARE IN THE COMPREHENSIVE STROKE CENTER

Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification:  Current Status  Anne Alexandrov, PhD, RN, CCRN, FAAN
Drip + Ship:  A Standard of Care?  Adnan Qureshi, MD
Induced Hypertension for AIS:  An Update  Thabele M. Leslie-Mazwi, MD
Malignant MCA Infarction:  New Approaches  Gary Bernardini, MD, PhD
Managing the Acutely Reperfused Brain  Christine Wijman, MD