2003 American Academy of Emergency Medicine
Scientific Assembly on Neurological Emergencies

FERNE hosted lectures on Neurologic Emergencies at the Second Mediterranean Emergency Medicine Congress that was held on

Wednesday September 17, 2003

Sitges / Barcelona, Spain


Following lectures were presented at the meeting

Neurologic Emergencies and the Practice of Emergency Medicine


Neurological Emergencies: Approaches in Europe and Turkey

John Fowler, MD
Izmir, Turkey

 

Infectious Neuro Emergencies: Meningitis & Encephalitis

Midnight Madness: A Crazy Psychologist in the ED Late at Night

J. Stephen Huff, MD, FACEP
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA


A Diabetic Male with AMS, Fever, and Hallucinations

Edward Sloan, MD, MPH, FACEP
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

 

Traumatic Brain Injury: Concussion & Mild Injury Severe Traumatic Brain Injury


Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

F. Della Corte, MD
University of Novara -School of Medicine


Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Andy Jagoda, MD
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

 

Plenary Session Acute Stroke and the Specialty of Emergency Medicine: The NINDS & Stroke Centers Thrombolytics: Why the Controversy? Stroke Care in Europe


Emergency Medicine Treatment of Acute Stroke in the U.S.; Progress, Problems, and Politics Abstract

William Barsan, MD, FACEP
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI


Clinical Use of tPA in Acute Ischemic Stroke


Edward Sloan, MD, MPH, FACEP
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL


Stroke Care in Europe, Emergency Medicine Role

L. Garcia-Castrillo, MD, SEMES

 

FERNE Lunch Symposium (Sponsored by Eisai Inc.)Seizure Management: Classification & Treatment The ED Evaluation of New Onset Seizures Status Epilepticus


An Elderly Woman who has Stopped Seizing…or Has She?

J. Stephen Huff, MD, FACEP
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA


How Do We Evaluate, Treat, and Disposition New Onset Seizure Patients?


Andy Jagoda, MD, FACEP
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY


Management of the ED Patient in Status Epilepticus

Edward Sloan, MD, MPH, FACEP
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

 

Neuropsychiatry: Delirium, Medical Clearance, Agitation & Psychosis


Agitated Patient in the Emergency Department

E. Bradshaw Bunney, MD
University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL


Recognition and Management of Delirium in the Emergency Department

Sheldon Jacobson, MD

 

Acute Headache: ED Approach & Evaluation Migraine: Diagnosis & Treatment


Acute "Head Pressure" and the Left Side of the Bell

Jonathan A. Edlow, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, MA


Utility of Red Flags in the Headache Patient in the ED

Luis Garcia-Castrillo Riesgo MD.

 

Case Studies in Neurologic Emergencies: Vertigo, Weakness, and Toxicity


As the World Turns: Vertigo in the Emergency Department

Andrew K. Chang, MD
University of California, Irvine, CA


"I'm Seeing Double"

Scott E. Rudkin, MD, MBA


Toddler Takes a Tumble: Persistent Symptoms after Apparent Minor Head Trauma

Gary R. Strange, MD
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL