Continuing Education Resources
ENCSN Stroke Training Presentations
Unbuckling the Stroke Belt: Optimizing Stroke Care in Eastern NC
- Download Powerpoint Presentation
- Watch Presentation Video (from ENCSN April 2010 Quarterly Meeting)
- Target Audience: Nursing, Allied Health, EMS
- Author: Patty Collins, MAEd, BSN, RN (Bob Thomas, & other ENCSN CE members)
- Director, Nursing Continuing Education and EMS Education, Area L AHEC
- Target Audience: Nursing, Allied Health, EMS
Basic Stroke Course
- Download Powerpoint Presentation
- Target Audience: Primarily EMS (EMT-Basic), Allied Health
- Author: Lori Hardison, EMT-Paramedic
- Martin Community College
- Target Audience: Primarily EMS (EMT-Basic), Allied Health
Challenges and Solutions:
Preventing and Treating Cardiovascular Disease through Telehealth Technology in Eastern North Carolina
March 30, 2010
East Carolina Heart Institute at ECU, Greenville, NC
About this workshop:
Gain perspective on the challenges faced by rural eastern NC health providers in managing cardiovascular disease. Learn about telehealth innovations that have been used in eastern NC and around the world.
This workshop was provided free-of-charge to meeting participants through the funding of the Eastern NC Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program.
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Watch Videos of Meeting Presentations
- Telehealth Conference Introduction
- -Wayne Cascio, MD
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, East Carolina University
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, East Carolina University
- Health Disparities: A Chronic Disease Profile of Rural Eastern NC
- -Skip Cummings, PharmD
- Department of Family Medicine, East Carolina University
- -Chris Mansfield, PhD
- Department of Public Health, East Carolina University
- Department of Family Medicine, East Carolina University
- Challenges of Rural NC Health Providers in Managing Cardiovascular Disease: Discussion Panel
- -Moderator-Walter Tan, MD
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, East Carolina University
- -Domingo Cue, MD
- Downtown Health Center, Williamston, NC
- -Jamie Powell, MD
- Department of Internal Medicine, East Carolina University
- -Charlsie Woodard, MSN, FNS, FNP, CCRN, BSPH-ED
- Pitt County Memorial Hospital
- -Tom Irons, MD
- Office of the Generalist, East Carolina University, Bernstein Center
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, East Carolina University
- The Telemedicine Program at East Carolina University
- -Gloria Jones
- Telemedicine, East Carolina University
- Telemedicine, East Carolina University
- Tele-Home Monitoring of High Risk Cardiovascular Patients: Roanoke Chowan Community Health Center
- -Bonnie Britton, MSN
- Roanoke Chowan Community Health Center
- Roanoke Chowan Community Health Center
- Using Cellphones to Change the World: Mobile Care (MOCA) for Remote Diagnosis and Screening
- -RJ Ryan
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- -Trishan Panch, MD
- MIT
- -Leo Celi, MD
- MIT
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Stroke Telemedicine article abstract
Pervez MA; Silva G; Masrur S. et al. 2010. Remote Supervision of IV-tPA for Acute Ischemic Stroke by Telemedicine or Telephone Before Transfer to a Regional Stroke Center Is Feasible and Safe. Stroke. 2010;41:e18-e24. See article abstract here.
In North Carolina, stroke telemedicine systems exist at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem (contact Jonathan Bailey, Neuroscience Director, for more information or download brochure here), and at Forsyth Stroke and Neurovascular Center in Winston-Salem (a hub-and-spoke type system, Novant Neuro Science Solution Network).
Click here to see video clips of actual telestroke consultations on the NIH Stroke Scale from Partners TeleStroke Center in Boston, MA.
