Please join Drs. Mayer and Olson for a discussion featuring:
1. Benefits to a collaborative systematic approach for initiating and maintaining fever control in the neuroscience population.
2. Key preclinical and clinical studies that support fever control to reduce secondary brain injury.
3. Specific strategies available to the multidisciplinary team for fever control.
Learning Objectives:
On successful completion of this activity, the participant should be able to:- Outline benefits to a collaborative systematic approach for initiating and maintaining fever control in the neuroscience population.
- Identify key preclinical and clinical studies that support fever control to reduce secondary brain injury.
- List specific strategies available to the multidisciplinary team for fever control.
| Presenters: |  Stephan A. Mayer, MD, FCCM is Professor of Neurology and Neurological Surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in New York City, and Director of the Neurological Intensive Care Unit at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Mayer has published more than 500 journal articles, books, case reports, book chapters, and abstracts. His work in helping to organize therapeutic hypothermia for victims of cardiac arrest in New York City was recently featured in the book Cheating Death, by CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
Dr. Mayer has no conflicts of interest to disclose. |  DaiWai M. Olson, PhD, RN, CCRN is an expert clinician, widely published author, experienced researcher, and popular and effective speaker. His more than 20 years in nursing have been focused on critical care, with a primary interest and passion for neurocritical care. He has been the principal investigator on numerous clinical research studies, and he has spoken extensively throughout the United States. He is widely published in numerous journals, and is a contributor to the prestigious Lippincott publication The Clinical Practice of Neurological and Neurosurgical Nursing, edited by J.V. Hickey. Dr. Olson is currently a clinical research associate in the Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology at Duke University Medical Center. He also remains clinically involved through his position as Level 4 Staff Nurse in the Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit at Duke University Medical Center. |
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