Workshops

The Essentials of Neurocritical Care is the advanced successor course to ENLS and combines online education modules completed prior to a two-day, in-person workshop at the Swedish Hospital Simulation Center located in Seattle, WA. During the workshop, attendees will receive equipment exposure and training, hands-on simulation lab training, intensive small-group discussion and problem solving, and group didactic review and debriefing. Topics include the neurological exam/scales and neuroprognostication, ultrasound, multimodality monitoring, ICP monitor placement, management and evaluation, targeted temperature management, ECMO and neurocritical care, and airway and ventilation.

This immersive, one-day, hands-on workshop is designed to develop practical competency in core and advanced critical care procedures with an emphasis on ultrasound guidance, procedural decision-making, and the acquisition of hands-on skills.

The course integrates focused, high-yield didactics with extensive simulation-based skill stations, allowing participants to immediately translate cognitive frameworks into procedural practice. Highlights include percutaneous tracheostomy and ultrasound-guided gastrostomy placement, in addition to foundational and advanced ultrasound-guided procedures such as vascular access, thoracentesis, chest tube placement, paracentesis, and lumbar puncture.

Participants will progress through structured stations covering patient selection, anatomy recognition, ultrasound image acquisition and interpretation, procedural technique, complication management, and post-procedure care. Dedicated sessions also address systems-level considerations including privileging, credentialing, and procedural billing.

The curriculum is designed to bridge the gap between ultrasound acquisition skills and real-world procedural application in high-acuity environments. While procedural training is a standard component of many critical care programs, structured opportunities remain limited in several subspecialty domains. This course provides a low-stress, feedback-rich environment for both novice and experienced clinicians to refine technique, build confidence, and standardize procedural approaches using point-of-care ultrasound as an integral tool for safe and effective bedside intervention.

Wrap-up sessions include case-based discussion, troubleshooting, and open Q&A to consolidate learning and address real-world implementation challenges.

This half-day workshop equips attendees with the fundamentals of mechanical ventilation using a combination of lectures, small group stations, hands-on practice on the ventilator, and interactive case-based discussions. Brief interactive lectures will be followed by small-group case-based sessions covering basic respiratory physiology, monitoring of mechanical ventilation, patient-ventilator interactions, and brain-lung crosstalk. The ventilator simulator station will address titration of various parameters and troubleshooting of mechanical ventilation in commonly encountered clinical scenarios.  Context-specific considerations such as ventilation in brain injury (with review of the recent relevant evidence), management of ARDS, and brain-lung conflict will also be reviewed. This is an introductory course.  Ideal attendees are fellows & junior faculty in NCC, neurologists and neurocritical care specialists, advanced practice providers and nurses who want to acquire fundamental and detailed knowledge of the basic provision of mechanical ventilation in neurocritical care.

This hands-on course is designed to introduce participants to image acquisition methods, ultrasound techniques, and clinical applications of point-of-care neuro-ultrasound in neurocritical care. The workshop structure employs an interactive format, blending concise didactic sessions with practical, hands-on ultrasound skill stations. Didactic sessions on  basic approaches for cranial B-mode, optic nerve sheath, and transcranial Doppler ultrasound will be followed by small group hands-on practice and guidance from expert neurosonology faculty. Participants will immediately apply learned skills from hands-on practice to interactive case interpretation and clinical management, with topics including vasoreactivity, hypo- and hyper-perfusive patterns, increased intracranial pressure, and brain death.

There is increasing interest in non-invasive approaches to neuromonitoring. Tools are available to identify intracranial hypertension and assess intracranial compliance, to measure blood flow and autoregulation, and to rapidly diagnose seizures at the point of care. Non-invasive techniques broaden the potential number and types of patients who can be monitored and new technologies may be more readily available in resource limited settings. This workshop will give learners an overview of non-invasive techniques and tools that can be used in clinical practice and what they can add to the clinical examination to optimally monitor patients for evolving secondary brain injuries. The workshop will leverage hands-on demonstrations of devices, clinical case examples, and expert insights for putting together non-invasive monitoring data to individualize patient management. 

This workshop is an extension of a long-running webinar series called "Case Studies in Neurocritical Care AI." Designed for clinicians aiming to harness the full potential of neurocritical care data, this workshop includes real-world case studies from the broader research community. Whether you're an AI and data analytics novice or looking to deepen your expertise, this workshop will provide practical insights and tools to tackle challenges with neurocritical care data. No prior programming experience is needed. Using interactive and collaborative Python Jupyter notebooks, we will walk workshop participants through a comprehensive suite of relevant neurocritical care analyses. This includes, but is not limited to, notebooks for 1) multimodal monitoring data management, 2) trustworthy AI and benchmarking, 3) AI implementation, and 4) agentic AI applications.

This immersive, hands-on workshop introduces core image acquisition techniques and clinical applications of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) to support systemic assessment in neurocritical care. Participants will learn how ultrasound augments evaluation and management beyond the brain. The afternoon session focuses on body/systemic ultrasound applications, including cardiac function assessment, volume status evaluation, lung ultrasound for respiratory failure and pulmonary edema, and integration of hemodynamic findings into neurocritical care management. The workshop combines concise didactics with small-group, hands-on scanning stations led by expert faculty, allowing participants to immediately apply techniques and incorporate ultrasound into bedside decision-making.