Seizures: Epiphenomena or Contributors of Secondary Brain Injury
Event Details
Course introduction: Seizures are increasingly recognized as a common occurrence after acute brain injuries with increased seizure burden being linked to worsened outcomes. Despite such evidence, there is a lack
Event Details
Course introduction:
Seizures are increasingly recognized as a common occurrence after acute brain injuries with increased seizure burden being linked to worsened outcomes. Despite such evidence, there is a lack of information that treating electrographic seizures in the intensive care unit is associated with improved outcomes. In this webinar, we review data that evaluates the impact that seizures have on the injured brain within the intensive care unit environment and literature involving the risks and benefits of aggressive management against electrographic seizures and status epilepticus in neurocritical care.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this seminar the participants will be able to:
- Evaluate the epidemiologic data behind seizures after acute brain injury.
- Evaluate neuroimaging and multimodality monitoring studies relating seizures with disturbances in cerebral physiology.
- Evaluate recent work relating treatment of electrographic seizures with functional outcomes.
Speakers for this event
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Dr. Brian Appavu
Dr. Brian Appavu
MD
Dr. Brian Appavu is a critical care clinical neurophysiologist and Director of the Neurocritical Care Fellowship at the Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children’s Hospital. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Child Health and Neurology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix. He carries quintuple board-certification in neurocritical care, clinical neurophysiology with added competency in critical care monitoring, epilepsy, neurosonology, and child neurology. Dr. Appavu’s clinical and research interests are in the use of electroencephalography, neurovascular ultrasound, and multimodality neurologic monitoring for care of critically ill children.
MD
Time
(Thursday) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST
Location
ONLINE eSeminar
