12th Annual UC San Diego Stroke Conference
Course Description
The 12th Annual UC San Diego Stroke Conference, presented by the UC San Diego Stroke Center, offers an update on stroke patient care and research for neurologists, primary care physicians, cardiologists, vascular and neurosurgeons, registered nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, physical and occupational therapists and other health care providers.
The course will provide cutting edge information for practitioners in current clinical practice and present future possibilities in the treatment of stroke. The faculty includes outstanding physicians and researchers in stroke care. Through education, we can improve patient care and help bridge the gap between knowledge and practice to improve outcomes.
UC San Diego Stroke Center
The UC San Diego Stroke Center has been recognized by the University Health-System Consortium (UHC) as one of the nation’s top academic medical centers providing stroke treatment. In a nationwide survey of 33 academic medical centers and 1,227 patients, the UC San Diego Stroke Center ranked second overall, measured against a variety of clinical benchmarks, including complication and death rates, length of hospitalization, diagnostic tests, and health counseling prior to discharge.
The UC San Diego Stroke Center has long been a national leader in stroke treatment. In the 1990s the UCSD Stroke Center led the National Institutes of Health-sponsored clinical trials of a new clot-busting therapy for stroke. If used properly, this therapy—tissue plasminogen activator or tPA—results in a 30 to 50 percent increase in the number of stroke survivors who are functionally independent three months after their stroke.
Over the past two decades, we have developed considerable expertise in the field of emergency resuscitation of stroke patients, and continue to lead the community in the treatment of stroke through education of physicians and patients and the development of novel approaches to treatment.
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