Pre-Injury Anticoagulation and Traumatic Brain Injury
Date: January 20, 2010
Time: 5:00pm-7:00pm
Valley Specialty Clinic Building
Auditorium
751 South Bascom Avenue
San Jose, CA 95128
Objectives:
1. Describe how pre-injury anticoagulation effects outcome in TBI
2. List treatment options for management of anticoagulated patients with TBI
3. Describe common complications in TBI patients with pre-injury anticoagulation
Instructor: Raul Coimbra, MD
Chief/Division of Trauma/Surgical Critical Care/Burns UCSD Medical Center, San Diego, CA
Lecture Sponsored by: Regional Medical Center of San Jose, Trauma Department
To RSVP contact Laura Rapolla:
Email at Laura.Rapolla@hhs.sccgov.org or call 408-885-4250
Light refreshments will be available.
There will be 2 hours of CME awarded to physician attendees
This course has been approved for 2 hours of continuing education by the Santa Clara County Emergency Medical Services Agency, an approved California EMS CE provider 43-0001 and California BRN CE provider # 15149
About Us
- Santa Clara County EMS Agency
- Santa Clara County, California, United States
- The Santa Clara County EMS Agency is charged with the oversight and regulation of the delivery of emergency medical services within the County. The EMS Agency is responsible for developing and coordinating an integrated emergency medical care delivery system, which is composed of education agencies, hospitals and specialty care facilities. Responsibilities include system planning, training program approval, provider and hospital designation, the establishment of appropriate medical, operations, and quality standards, monitoring and facilitating compliance, and the certification, authorization, and accreditation of personnel. The EMS Agency is also responsible for disaster medical-health planning and response. This includes multiple patient management, emergency public health operations, and medical-health mutual aid coordination.