By Yasser B. Abulhasan, Chairman, Neurocritical Care-MENA Chapter of IPACCMS; and Hussain N. Al Rahma, President, IPACCMS It will be a delight to welcome you to Dubai for the Second Regional Neurocritical Care Meeting in the Middle East and Africa on April 2-4, 2020. After the buzz of the ...
By Jason Makii, PharmD, MBA, FCCM, FNCS, BCPS, BCCCP, Chair, Pharmacy Section Leadership Committee The Pharmacy Section celebrated numerous successes in 2019. Sixty-six pharmacists attended the NCS Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, in October 2019 with several members presenting...
By Shraddha Mainali, MD ; Sherry H-Y Chou, MD, MSc ; Molly Mcnett, PhD, RN, CNRN ; Jennifer Kim, MD, PhD Acknowledgements: Claude Hemphill, MD, MAS; Daiwai Olson, PhD, RN; Paul Vespa, MD; Javier Provencio, MD In 2018, a panel of multidisciplinary experts gathered at the NCS Blue...
By Lauren Koffman, DO, MS The Neurocritical Care Society (NCS) recently released the Brain Death Determination course to assist physicians on diagnosing brain death, created by David Greer, MD; Ariane Lewis, MD; Matthew Kirschen, MD, PhD; and Michael Rubin, MD. This...
By Megan Barra, PharmD, (left) and Wren Sherrill ANP, (right) on behalf of the NCS Trainee Section The Neurocritical Care Society’s (NCS) Trainee Committee is excited to announce that it is accepting applications for the fourth year of the NCS Mentorship Program formally held from January –...
By Roy Poblete, MD, David Seder, MD, Gene Sung, MD Since the first Emergency Neurological Life Support® (ENLS) course, there has always been a great deal of interest in developing an advanced learning follow-up course. The Neurocritical Care Society is now proud to present the brand...
By Pouya Alexander Ameli, MD, MS Neurocritical Care Fellow, Emory University Chair-Elect, Trainee Section Naomi Niznick, MD PGY3 Neurology Resident, The Ottawa Hospital Trainee Section Leadership Committee In Homer’s The Odyssey , Odysseus asks for his friend “Mentor” to watch...
Updates to Emergency Neurological Life Support® (ENLS) training reflect the most up-to-date, best practice for treating patients with acute neurological disorders. The Neurocritical Care Society (NCS) recently announced the launch of Version 4.0 of its ENLS training. ENLS is a comprehensive...
By Ryan Hakimi, DO, MS, FNCS, NVS With the support of Fredy J. Revilla, MD, and Charles Kanos, MD, the Chiefs of Neurology and Neurosurgery, respectively, a unified Neuro ICU Service was started at Prisma Health–Upstate's Greenville Memorial Hospital (GMH), the principal teaching hospital of...
By Christa O’Hana S. Nobleza, MD, MSCI Assistant Professor University of Mississippi Medical Center Aleksandra Yakhkind, MD, MS Neurocritical Care Fellow University of Pennsylvania Health System Guest Advisor: Chitra Venkatasubramanian, MBBS, MD, MSc, FNCS Clinical...