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CME Test 151

Release date: 11/13/2009
Termination date: 11/30/2010

Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Assessment and Management in the Outpatient Setting

Nancy J. Gardetto, MSN, FNP-BC, Susanne W. Gibbons, PhD, C-ANP, C-GNP, Julie LaZarre-Miller, MSN, ANP-BC, and Dorraine D. Watts, PhD, RN

Goal
To review the key factors related to outpatient recognition and management of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in adults.

Learning Objectives
After reading this article and taking the appropriate test, participants should be able to:

1. Recognize the factors that put patients at risk for mTBI and those that raise the risk of persistent symptoms or poor functional outcome following mTBI.
2. Apply a working definition of mTBI and select appropriate tools for screening and evaluation.
3. Provide effective patient education and appropriate interventions and referrals to help improve mTBI outcomes.

Intended Audience
This CME activity is designed for physicians and other clinicians treating patients in the federal health care system.

CME Accreditation Information
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Quadrant HealthCom Inc. Albert Einstein College of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Estimated time to complete this activity is one hour.

Author Information
Ms. Gardetto is a nurse practitioner in cardiac heart failure at the VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA and a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Nursing (GSN) at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, MD. Dr. Gibbons is an assistant professor and the research director of the Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program at USUHS GSN. Ms. LaZarre-Miller is a nurse practitioner in mental health and behavioral science at the Northern Arizona VA Healthcare System, Prescott, AZ and a doctoral student in the GSN at USUHS. Dr. Watts is an associate professor in the GSN at USUHS.

CME Peer Review
This article has been peer reviewed and approved for CME credit by David M. Kaufman, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and professor of neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY. Review date: October 2009.

CME Conflict of Interest Statement
The Conflict of Interest Disclosure Policy of Albert Einstein College of Medicine requires that authors participating in any CME activity disclose to the audience any relationship(s) with a pharmaceutical or equipment company. No author whose disclosed relationships prove to create a conflict of interest, with regard to his or her contribution to the activity, is permitted to contribute. These policies also require that authors participating in any CME activity disclose to the audience any discussions of unlabeled or investigational use of any commercial product or device not yet approved for use in the United States. The authors report no such relationships or discussions.

The CME reviewer, Dr. Kaufman, reports no conflict of interest. The staffs of CCME of Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Federal Practitioner have no conflicts of interest with commercial interest related directly or indirectly to this educational activity.

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