Wednesday May 23rd, 2007 DAY 1:  NUTS + BOLTS OF NEUROCRITICAL CARE A full day devoted to the fundamentals of neurocritical care.  Management protocols that you can use in your ICU will be provided in the syllabus. ABC + ICP Moderator:  Stephan A. Mayer, MD 8:00 AM Airway Kees Polderman, MD    8:25 AM Mechanical Ventilation David Chong, MD 8:50 AM Blood Pressure William Coplin, MD 9:15 AM Intracranial Pressure Stephan A. Mayer, MD Homeostasis Moderator:  Thorsten Steiner, MD 10:30 AM  Sedation Kees Polderman, MD 10:55 AM Glucose Jennifer Frontera, MD 11:20 AM  Fluids Rob Levine, MD 11:45 AM  Temperature Neeraj Badjatia, MD Medical Complications Moderator:  Kees Polderman, MD 2:00 PM  ICU Infections Stephan A. Mayer, MD 2:25 PM Sodium and Water Balance Rob Levine, MD 2:50 PM    Neurocardiac Injury Augusto  Parra, MD 3:15 PM Coagulopathies Thorsten Steiner, MD The 4th NY Symposium Special Lecture 4:00  PM Coding, Billing and Staffing:  The Bottom Line of Neurocritical Care Owen Samuels, MD

Thursday, May 24th, 2007 Morning:  NEUROLOGICAL EMERGENCIES Teams of three volunteers from the audience will have the opportunity to manage simulated neurological emergencies with help from experts in emergency medicine and neurocritical care! Session 1:  What Would You Do?  The NEUROSIMULATOR! Moderators:  Andy Jagoda, MD, Stephan A. Mayer, MD and Haru Okuda, MD 8:00 AM Seizures Steve Kaplan, MD and Lawrence J. Hirsch, MD 8:25 AM Traumatic Brain Injury  Neal Flomenbaum, MD, and William Coplin, MD 8:50 AM Acute Hemiplegia       Edward Jauch, MD, and Lee Schwamm, MD 9:15 AM  Thunderclap Headache Joshua Stillman, MD, and Matthew Fink, MD 9:40 AM Cardiac Arrest William Barsan, MD, and Kees Polderman, MD Plenary Session:  Telemedicine 2007 Moderator:   Neal Flomenbaum, MD 10:30 AM  Robotic Telepresence in the Neuro-ICU Paul Vespa, MD 11:00 AM  Telestroke:  Expanding the Net  Lee Schwamm, MD Keynote Address Moderator:  Andy Jagoda, MD 11:30 AM Emergency Neurotherapeutics:  Meeting the Challenge William Barsan, MD

Thursday, May 24th, 2007 Afternoon:  ADVANCES IN NEUROCRITICAL CARE Intracerebral Hemorrhage Moderator:  Joshua Stillman, MD 1:30 PM  Hemostatic Therapy for ICH:  the FAST Trial Currently embargoed, please check back later. Stephan A. Mayer, MD 1:55 PM Factor VII for ICH:  Ready for Use? Ed Jauch, MD 2:20 PM ICH Critical Pathways Matthew E. Fink, MD Status Epilepticus Moderator:  Neeraj Badjatia, MD 3:30 PM  Convulsive Status Epilepticus:  Current Concepts  Jan Claassen, MD 3:55 PM Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus:  A Silent Killer?  Paul Vespa, MD 4:20 PM Continuous EEG Monitoring:  How to Build Your System Lawrence J. Hirsch, MD

Friday, May 25th, 2007 Morning:  MULTIMODALITY MONITORING WORKSHOP Multimodality Fundamentals Moderator: William Coplin, MD 8:00 AM  Inside the Black Box:  Illuminating the Comatose Brain Stephan A. Mayer, MD 8:25 AM Brain Tissue Oxygen Monitoring  Peter LeRoux, MD 8:50 AM   Microdialysis       Urban Ungerstedt, MD 9:15 AM  Continuous EEG Monitoring Lawrence J. Hirsch, MD      9:40 AM       Data Acquisition and Analysis Systems J. Michael Schmidt, PhD Multimodality Case Studies:  From Theory to Practice Moderator: Peter LeRoux, MD 10:30 AM  LTC Analysis:  Levels, Trends and Comparison Urban Ungerstedt, MD 10:55 AM   Intracerebral Hemorrhage        Stephan A. Mayer, MD      11:20 AM  Traumatic Brain Injury Paul Vespa, MD