St. Luke’s hosts 1st certification course for ENLS
St. Luke’s College of Medicine-William H. Quasha Memorial and St. Luke’s Medical Center, in cooperation with the Neurocritical Care Society from the US, will host the first Emergency Neurologic Life Support (ENLS) certification course at the Angelo King Auditorium of the St. Luke’s College of Medicine-William H. Quasha Memorial on June 16 - 17.
The ENLS course is designed to help healthcare professionals improve patient care and outcomes during the critical first hours of a patient’s neurological emergency. ENLS demonstrates a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach and provides a consistent set of protocols, practical checklists, decision points, and suggested communication to use during patient management.
Doctors from various specialties, critical care and emergency medical service nurses, and other allied health care professionals who treat neurologic emergencies will benefit from the in-depth discussions of 14 critical topics. These are acute non-traumatic weakness; acute ischemic stroke; acute stroke; airway, ventilation and sedation; approach to the comatose patient; intracerebral hemorrhage; meningitis and encephalitis; intracranial hypertension; herniation; pharmacotherapy; resuscitation following cardiac arrest; spinal cord compression; status epilepticus; subarachnoid hemorrhage, and traumatic brain injury.
On-line examination will be available during and after the sessions.
The goals of ENLS include improving the care of patients with neurological emergencies; providing a set of approaches that lists important steps in managing a patient with a potential neurological emergency; attempting to standardize emergency neurological care by consensus of practicing and research physicians; providing education to anyone dealing with neurological emergencies; and identifying areas where research is needed to improve the care of patients.
For inquiries and registration, contact Dr. Dan Juangco, 0922-8372330; Dr. Mariel Doquenia at 09228372339 or email enls.slqc@gmail.com.