Stroke- BE FAST in educating your patients - Live Webinar on February 4, 2025 8PM ET
Learn to recognize, prevent, and manage strokes with evidence-based strategies. This course equips healthcare professionals to enhance rapid response, reduce mortality, and improve patient outcomes.
About this webinar
Stroke remains a leading cause of death and long-term disability in the United States, affecting individuals across all demographics. The urgency of early recognition and treatment, compounded by the severe health and economic impacts of strokes, underscores the necessity for healthcare professionals to be well-versed in its prevention, diagnosis, and management. This training equips participants with critical skills to identify stroke symptoms, understand the distinctions between stroke types, and apply evidence-based strategies for prevention and acute care. By enhancing awareness and promoting rapid, informed responses, the course empowers healthcare professionals to reduce stroke-related mortality and improve patient outcomes.
At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
Identify the symptoms of stroke.
Distinguish the difference between “red clots” and “white clots”
List antiplatelet drugs and their role in stroke prevention.
List the anticoagulants and their role in the prevention of DVT, PE, and stroke
Instructors
Peter A. Kreckel, RPh is a most unique breed of community pharmacist. He is a 1981 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. He has practiced independent community pharmacy for his entire career. He began his teaching career at St. Francis University in 2005, in the Department of Physician Assistant Sciences. For the past 16 years, he has taught Pharmacology to over 700 Physician Assistant Science students in their didactic year. He teaches all disciplines year-round, from Antibiotic therapy to Ob-Gyn.