2nd Annual Stroke Review Course for Residents

Over 60 neurology residents attended the 2nd annual stroke review course for residents, which took place in January 27-28, 2010, Coral Hotel, Al-Khobar, Eastern Province.

The course has been quite interactive and most of the residents expressed a positive feed back on the evaluation.

Dr. Ali Al-Khathaami, Dr. Fahmi Al-Senani, Dr. Eman Bakhsh, Dr. Ali Al-Qarni, Dr. Naser Al-Otaibi, Dr. Mohammed Al-Zawahmah, Dr. Shireen Al-Qureshi, Dr. Riyadh Al-Okaili, Dr. Suliemna Kojan, Dr. Fawaz Al-Hussain, Dr. Ali Al-Shuhri and Dr. Waleed Khoja were the speakers to the course.

The Program:

Tuesday Jan 26th	Check in for speakers and residents out side Eastern Province
Wed Jan 27th	AM: Theme: General Epidemiology & burden of stroke in KSA  Pathophysiology & classification  and clinical localization of ischemic stroke. Cerebro-vascular anatomy through Neuroradiology ICH (pathophysiology, etiology and management Cerebral venous anatomy, thrombosis TIA : diagnosis, risk stratification and management
	PM: Theme: Stroke prevention ABC of stroke prevention Workshop # 1 ( prevention workshop)   Workshop # 2 ( prevention workshop) Workshop # 3 ( prevention workshop)
Thursday Jan 28th	AM: Theme: Acute stroke Emerging Imaging Techniques in Acute Stroke Thrombolytic therapy for acute stroke Interventional acute stroke therapy  Management of HTN, Glucose, Fever and other stuff in acute stroke  Workshop # 4 ( acute stroke workshop)
	PM: Theme : Acute stroke management Workshop # 5 ( acute stroke workshop) Workshop # 6 ( acute stroke workshop) Workshop # 7 ( acute stroke workshop) Workshop # 8 ( acute stroke workshop)
	PM: Hand on Job Workshop Transcranial Doppler workshop
	7-9 PM Jeopardy (Girls against boys tournament)  Why Strokology should be your future career  Closing remarks

 

Note:

Workshop # 1:  Management of HTN, DM, Lipids, metabolic syndrome.

Workshop # 2:  Cardioembolic stroke (Case-1 AF, Case-2 PFO, Case-3 PHF/ICH)

Workshop # 3:  Choosing antiplatelets therapy through a TIA case

Workshop # 4: CT interpretation in acute stroke (early ischemic changes, ASPECT, CTA, CTP)

Workshop # 5: MRI Interpretation in acute stroke (DWI, MRP, MRA)

Workshop # 6: Classical t-PA runs (2 cases)

Workshop # 7:  t-PA or not t-PA (Controversial cases)

Workshop # 8: IA t-PA runs (case-1 anterior circulation, case-2 BAT)