Ask the Expert: EMU Quality And Safety

Description

Overview:
This webinar provides an evidenced based overview of adverse events that occur in Epilepsy Monitoring Units, strategies that may improve patient safety, and current standards of care related to quality and safety of video-EEG monitoring.

Learning Objectives:
1) Learners will assess data regarding the frequency of adverse events reporting from Epilepsy Monitoring Units.
2) Learners will examine and evaluate strategies and standards for improving safety during video-EEG monitoring.

Target Audience
Epileptologists, neurologists, nurses, professionals in epilepsy care

Accreditation
The American Epilepsy Society is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to offer continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation
The American Epilepsy Society designates this live activity for a maximum of .5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This activity is jointly provided by AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare and the American Epilepsy Society.

Nursing
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
This activity is awarded .5 contact hours.

CME Certificates
To secure credit for this activity please go to the AES Medical Education Evaluator, an online system that allows attendees to complete activity evaluations, track educational credits and print out a certificate.

Disclosure
Planning Committee
Dennis Dlugos, M.D., Moderator
Dr. Dlugos has nothing to disclose.

Howard Goodkin, M.D., Ph.D.,
Chair, Education and Professional Development Committee
Dr. Goodkin has nothing to disclose.

Paul Levisohn, M.D., Medical Content Specialist
Dr. Levisohn has nothing to disclose.

AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare – Lead Nurse Planner
Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN
Ms. Caputo has nothing to disclose.
AKH planners and reviewers have nothing to disclose.

Presenter
Katherine Noe, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Noe has nothing to disclose.

CME Reviewer
Lara Jehi, M.D.
Dr. Jehi has nothing to disclose.

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Contributors

Dennis Dlugos, M.D.

Dennis J. Dlugos, MD, is Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania; and Director, Pediatric Epilepsy Program at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). He received his MD from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. He went on to complete his training in Pediatrics at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland; residency in Neurology / Child Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania and CHOP; and his fellowship in Epilepsy at CHOP. He is Chair of the AES Education and Professional Development Committee. Articles authored or co-authored by Dr. Dlugos have been published in Neurology, Annals of Neurology, Lancet Neurology, Epilepsia, Lancet, Nature and the New England Journal of Medicine.
Presenter: Katherine Noe, M.D., Ph.D.

Katherine Noe, M.D., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Neurology at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona. After neurology residency training at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Noe completed fellowship training in clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Her clinical practice involves medical and surgical care of adults with epilepsy. She is an active board member and past chair of the Epilepsy Foundation of Arizona. Dr. Noe has specific research interests in improving quality and safety in the care of persons with epilepsy.

Description

Contributors

Dennis Dlugos, M.D.

Presenter: Katherine Noe, M.D., Ph.D.