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Original Release Date: 04/26/2024
Expires: 03/31/2026
Credit claim for this activity will end at 11:59 PM 03/31/2026

Overview: 

Serious brain injuries are often poorly understood and/or miscommunicated about. Concerns have arisen about our collective compliance with hospital policy related to brain death. 

Target Audience:  All healthcare workers within the Baylor Scott & White Healthcare System

For further study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2769149 

Objectives: After participating in this activity, the learner should be able to:

  • Utilize an acute brain injury map to help distinguish coma from brain death, the minimally conscious state, locked-in syndrome, and the vegetative state.
  • Communicate effectively about these conditions.
  • Recognize medical criteria, techniques and tests for diagnosing brain death.
  • Utilize the Epic Brain Death Tool

Planners/Authors:  This activity was planned, reviewed, edited, and approved for use as the curriculum for the Baylor Scott & White Health organization by: 

Robert L. Fine, MD, MACP, FAAHPM, HEC-C
Clinical Director, BSWH Office of Clinical Ethics and Palliative Care

Thomas L. Delmas, MD
Director, Neuroscience ICU, BSWH Memorial Hospital

Special thanks to Jennifer Rasmussen-Winkler MD
Neurosciences Governance Council

Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships:
Each person in control of content has disclosed that she/he have no relevant financial relationships with companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

*In the ACCME System (ineligible companies) are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients

Method of Participation & Request for CME/MOC Credit:

•Read all instructions and activity information
•View the slides in their entirety
•Complete the quiz with in the module with 100% accuracy.
•Instructions to evaluate and claim credit(s) for the activity will be provided on the final slide of the activity.
•Post activity, Click on the link to be taken to evaluation and credit claim for the course or follow the link sent in an email from Trainer@BSWHealth.org  to complete all questions on the evaluation and claim credit.

This CME activity type is an enduring material.  Physicians who complete the enduring material may claim the full amount of credit designated for the activity, regardless of the amount of time it took the physicians to complete the activity.

CME:
Accreditation: The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation: The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ABIM MOC: Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.50 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

MOC NOTE TO LEARNER:  By completing the credit claim process for MOC credit, you are giving the A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health your permission to transmit your completion data to the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and to your certifying board(s).

Meets Texas Requirements for 1.5 Hour of Ethics/Professional Responsibility Credit(s)

Commercial Support:  No commercial support was received for this activity.