Join your colleagues from around the world for a wide variety of learning opportunities from April 2024 - December 2024. Registration is free for IBIA and affiliated organization members and $25 for non-members. We look forward to welcoming you to the 2024 IBIA Webinar Series. All webinar registrants will receive a recording of the webinar several days after the live event.
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Clinical Evolution and Multimodal Prognostic Evaluation of Anoxic People with Disorders of Consciousness
Speaker: Anna Estraneo, MD
Date and Time: October 9, 2024, 11 AM ET
Organized by Disorders of Consciousness Special Interest Group.
Session Summary:
Although anoxic aetiology is thought to have worse outcomes than traumatic brain injury from the acute phase, advances in treatment from the acute to the long-term phase have led to an increase in the number of post-anoxic individuals who persist in a prolonged disorders of consciousness. In this context, accurate multimodal assessment can help clinicians to identify patients with a high probability of recovery and avoid inappropriate withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy in the acute phase. This webinar will provide an overview of evidence-based neuroprognostication with a focus on conventional predictors that are easy to collect at the patient's bedside and in all clinical settings.
Speaker Bio:
Anna Estraneo, MD, clinical neurologist, and researcher with expertise in Neurophysiology and in Neurorehabilitation and care of patients with severe brain injury, with special research interest in prognosis of patients with prolonged disorder of consciousness (pDoC).
She currently is head of Personalized Rehabilitation for severe Acquired Brain Injury (PeRABI) Research Unit at IRCCS Don Gnocchi Foundation Scientific Institute in Florence and Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi (Italy).
She is currently the Co-chair of the European Academy of Neurology Scientific Panel on Coma and chronic DoC; a member of the Task Force on the EAN Guidelines on Diagnosis of Coma and Chronic DoC; leader of the diagnosis/prognosis subgroup of the International Brain Injury Association special interest group, SIG, on pDoC, with Drs Nathan Zasler and Caroline Schnakers as co-chairs; Coordinator of the Italian inter-society consensus for management of post-anoxic DoC and pDoC; and a Governing Board member of the Italian Neurological Rehabilitation (SIRN) and of the Italian Neurophysiology Societies and chair of the SIRN-SIG on severe acquired brain injury.
Dr. Estraneo’s principal research activities on patients with acquired severe brain injury and DoC include: guidelines on diagnosis and prognosis; validation of clinical and neurophysiological tools; identification of prognostic markers for recovery of consciousness and of factors influencing clinical outcome; validation of treatment methods; and psychological evaluation of caregiver of patients with disorders of consciousness.
She is author of more than 100 papers published on international peer-reviewed scientific journals, and of book chapters on pDoC, epilepsy and neurodegenerative diseases (ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6646-5626).
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Recent Webinars
Standardized Patient Flow for Concussion Registry within an Outpatient Sports Medicine Clinic
Speaker: M. Nadir Haider, MD, PhD
Date and Time: July 16, 2024 at 12 PM ET
Organized by Concussion - mTBI Special Interest Group.
Session Summary:
Outcomes registries are crucial for improving patient care; however, patient flow should be standardized between clinicians at the same practice to ensure uniformity and reliability of automated data retrieval. This presentation discusses the standardized approach to seeing concussion patients at three UBMD Orthopedics and Sports Medicine clinics and the additional steps undertaken to implement a prospective registry at multiple sites.
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Registration - Concussion WebinarFunctional Brain Imaging in DoC Clinical Practice and the Forensic Arena: What Can Be Said with Confidence
Speaker: Steven Laureys, MD, PhD, FEAN
Date and Time: May 29, 2024 at 11 AM ET
Organized by Disorders of Consciousness Special Interest Group.
Session Summary:
This talk will explore the role of brain imaging in assessing patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC) both in clinical practice and forensic settings. We will discuss the current state of knowledge regarding the use of bedside behavioral examination as compared to neuro-imaging techniques such as structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), electroencephalography (EEG), evoked potentials (EP) and positron emission tomography (PET), highlighting what can be confidently inferred from these methods in terms of diagnosis, prognosis, and the detection of covert consciousness using brain computer interfaces (BCI). The talk will also address the challenges and limitations of these techniques, emphasizing the need for cautious interpretation and the integration of multiple assessment tools in comprehensive patient care.
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Registration - DOC RegistrationPost Traumatic Fatigue: Best Practices Assessment and Clinical Management
Speaker: Brian Greenwald, MD
Date and Time: May 9, 2024 at 12 PM ET
Organized by North America Brain Injury Society.
Session Description:
This webinar will review the definition of fatigue as well as how it is conceptualized including peripheral versus central fatigue. Anatomic areas of the brain implicated in fatigue will be reviewed. Assessment tool for fatigue, the differential diagnosis, medical work up and a range of treatment considerations will be discussed.
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Our Journey to Recognizing Brain Injury as a Chronic Condition
Speaker: John D. Corrigan, PhD
Interviewed by Katherine Snedaker, LCSW
Date and Time: April 17, 2024 at 12 PM ET
Organized by PINK Concussions.
Session Summary:
Over the last 15 years the field of brain injury rehabilitation has evolved our view of the long-term effects of many brain injuries. Longitudinal data from the TBI Models Systems and TRACK-TBI have shown that brain injury remains more dynamic than static many years post injury. The evolution of this recognition, and its implications for treatment, will be discussed.
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