2024 Serious Brain Injuries and Brain Death [IEM]

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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. 

For Further Learning: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2769149

Target Audience

Physicians and Advanced Practice Providers of the Baylor Scott & White Health System

Learning Objectives

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

  • Describe why this is an important topic by becoming aware of  socio-cultural and legal challenges to brain death – EVEN IF YOU AREN’T INVOLVED IN SUCH CASES! 
  • 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

 

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.50 American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) MOC Part 2
    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 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.
  • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    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.
    • 1.50 Ethics
  • 1.50 Attendance
    • 1.50 Ethics
Course opens: 
04/26/2024
Course expires: 
03/31/2026

Planners/Authors: 

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.

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

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 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 Medical Knowledge 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.

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

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 physician to complete the activity.

 

Available Credit

  • 1.50 American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) MOC Part 2
    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 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.
  • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    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.
    • 1.50 Ethics
  • 1.50 Attendance
    • 1.50 Ethics
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