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New Jersey Brain Injury Medical Seminar

By Michael Kaplen

The Brain Injury Association of New Jersey has announced a seminar for Wednesday May 19: entitled "Research and Medical Advances in the Acute Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury".

The seminar, intended for health care professionals has an outstanding group of presenters with timely and important topics.

Here are the conference objectives:

At the conclusion of this educational activity, participants should be able to:

1. Discuss the limitations of standard CT and MRI regarding TBI and how advances in neuroimaging have contributed to delineating TBI pathology
2. Describe the Veteran?s Affairs polytrauma system of care and discuss the screening and evaluation system for TBI in place at the VA
3. Describe the current management and therapy of intracranial pressure in the setting of TBI
4. Discuss the interaction of multiple trauma on head injury management
5. Explain the diagnostic differences among persons with disorders of consciousness
6. Describe the injury mechanism of concussion
7. Identify a new imaging technique for mild TBI
8. Discuss evidence based TBI Guidelines

The conference t is scheduled to be held at the Sheraton Eatontown Hotel and Conference Center, Eatontown, New Jersey

You can obtain more information by clicking here .

Full post as published by Brain Injury News and Information on March 28, 2010 (boomark / email).