Co-Chairs of the Member Sites Module Chethan Venkatasubba Rao, MD, FNCS cprao@bcm.edu Briana Witherspoon, DNP, APRN, ACNP Briana.Witherspoon@UTSouthwestern.edu Curing Coma® is the signature clinical, scientific, and public health effort of the Neurocritical Care Society....
Diane McLaughlin, DNP, UF Health Jacksonville, Department of Neurology and Kimberly McPhearson, DO, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Department of Critical Care Neurological checks (neuro checks) are brief, serial bedside exams performed by nursing to evaluate for changes in clinical status or...
By Yingying Su In 2012, the brain injury evaluation quality control center of the National Health Commission of the people's Republic of China (BQCC / PRC / NHC) was established and attached to Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University. So far, the standardized training of brain death ...
By Jocelyn Owusu-Guha, PharmD, BCCCP and Pamela L. Buschur, PharmD, BCPS, OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus Ohio Nimodipine, a lipophilic calcium channel antagonist, has been established as a standard of care in the management of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH)....
By: NCS Research Operations Subcommittee: Caitlin Brown PharmD, Michelle Schober MD, Shraddha Mainali MD, Cassia Righy MD, Minjee Kim MD, Tom Lawson CNP, Jennifer Kim MD, PhD, Ruchi Jha MD Can you tell me a little about yourself and how you got involved in the Neurocritical Care Society? ...
Yasser B. Abulhasan, MBChB, FRCPC, FNCS, Chairman, Neurocritical Care-MENA Chapter of IPACCMS It was a great pleasure organizing the 2 nd Neurocritical Care Regional Meeting in the Middle East and Africa in conjunction with the 17 th edition of the Emirates Critical Care Conference (ECCC)....
Ryan Hakimi, DO, MS, NVS, RPNI, CPB, FNCS This series will be a running feature highlighting billing, coding, practice management, and other business aspects of neurocritical care. When assembling and organizing a Neuro ICU team, one must begin with the end in mind. It is important to...
Misti Tuppeny & Kelly A. Rath On Behalf of the NCS APP Leadership Section & NCS Ethics Committee: Ethics Committee Chair/Chair Elect: Stephen Trevick, Jamie Nicole LaBuzetta APP Leadership Section Chair/Chair Elect: Rachel Hausladen, Ana Kukulj Healthcare through the 20 th ...
Salia Farrokh, Lucia Rivera Lara, Jon Cokley and Hana Nobleza Specialized neurocritical care teams have been found to improve outcomes such as mortality, length of stay, and discharge dispositions for patients who are both neurologically devastated and critically-ill. These teams within the...
By: Jose Miguel Medrano, MD, FPNA; Joanne Robles, MD, FPNA; Isabelita Rogado, RN, MAAN; Geraldine Siena Mariano, MD, FPNA, FPCP, FNCS, FPSCCM COVID-19 has put a spotlight on the importance of excellent, holistic, multidisciplinary critical care; despite this pandemic, there remains a...