Coverdell Acute Stroke ECHO

Georgia Coverdell Acute Stroke ECHO provides a virtual community learning platform for providers and first responders to access stroke specialist(s), discuss challenging cases, barriers and solutions to improve the stroke system of care in Georgia.

Curriculum

ECHO sessions are monthly and typically on the the last Monday, from 12 pm - 1 pm (EST). 

If you are interested in joining this or any other DPH ECHO, please visit https://forms.gle/RRGh6AF1zj9D9TMN7.

Georgia Coverdell Acute Stroke Registry ECHO Team:

• Rana Bayakly, MPH, Georgia Coverdell Acute Stroke Registry, Principal Investigator, Georgia DPH
• Denys Fluitt, MPA, GCASR Program Coordinator, Georgia DPH
• Teri Newsome, RN, BBLSS, GCASR, In-hospital Stroke Coordinator, Georgia DPH

Contact Information:

To ECHO is to expand your understanding, so if you need more information, please email us at [email protected].  

If you would like to present a case in an upcoming session, please complete a case presentation form: 

• Stroke Case Presentation Form

HIPAA Compliance: All patient information will be de-identified for presentation during sessions. To ensure HIPAA compliance during patient presentations, please identify your patient(s) only by their assigned ECHO ID.

2024 ECHO Session Recordings:

• 10/28/24: Hospital Value-Based Payments and Stroke Care: https://vimeo.com/1024085335/b6338e29fe
• 9/23/24: Intracerebral Hemorrhage Update: https://vimeo.com/1012414707/eafb316d00
• 8/26/24: EMS-Based Large Vessel Occlusion Identification for Stroke: https://vimeo.com/1003232259/fa92357f3a
• 7/29/2024 - 2023 Updates on Management of Patients with Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: https://vimeo.com/992203590/d6d16bfd55
• 5/20/24: GA Dept. of Public Health Stroke Initiatives: https://vimeo.com/948761830/6ee477ad44?share=copy
• 4/29/24: Highlights From the 2024 International Stroke Conference: https://vimeo.com/940939309/8e5182c65a?share=copy
• 3/18/24: Multidisciplinary Post Stroke Care: https://vimeo.com/924991745/734d285ff0?share=copy
• 2/19/24: Stroke Center Designation Process Update: https://vimeo.com/914795981/6e78cb20ab?share=copy
• 1/22/24: Posterior Circulation Strokes and Triage Pearls for EMS and ED Staff : https://vimeo.com/905344608/7fec6887bd?share=copy

2023 ECHO Session Recordings:

• 12/18/23: Tenecteplase vs. Alteplase for Ischemic Stroke : https://vimeo.com/895976091/11daa09583?share=copy
• 11/20/23: Hospital Value-Based Payments and Stroke Care : https://vimeo.com/895947012/2934141bc3?share=copy
• 10/23/23: Stroke Burden in GA in Relation to Social Vulnerability Index: https://vimeo.com/877477499/53c5932f84?share=copy
• 8/28/2023: Telestroke in Rural Georgia: Opportunities to Overcome Geographic Disparities in Stroke Care: https://vimeo.com/858738663/310e1941ed?share=copy
• 8/9/2023: Large Vessel Occlusion Stroke Treatment Update: https://vimeo.com/853375240/6ee48dd9bd?share=copy
• June 26, 2023: Analysis of the Highest Ten Percent EMS Notification and Response Times for Interfacility Stroke Transfers https://vimeo.com/840300450/3c7e5a411d?share=copy
• May 22, 2023: Assessment and Treatment of Patient with Low NIHSS Strokes https://vimeo.com/829188682/07014287e7?share=copy
• April 24, 2023: Highlights from the 2023 International Stroke Conference https://vimeo.com/820889880/243ea5bee4?share=copy
• 3/27/23: Stroke Care: Performance Measures for Quality Improvement https://vimeo.com/812828378/f2702244e4
• 2/27/23: Factors Associated with Stroke After Covid-19 Vaccination https://vimeo.com/803613618/8478329d18
• 1/23/23: A Look at Door-In Door-Out Best Practices: https://vimeo.com/792274803/501b97f6b3

2022 ECHO Session Recordings: 

01-10-2022 COVID & Stroke: https://vimeo.com/669488720/598b4a8981

01-24-2022 Stroke and Depression / Suicide https://vimeo.com/669596736/7575cfa9ea

02-14-2022 Performance Measures for EMS and Hospitals: https://vimeo.com/678302906/29a2af0108 

02-28-2022 Stroke Quality Improvement Impact on Hospital Payments: https://vimeo.com/683063730/582aba8f7e

03-14-2022 Stroke and Health Disparities-Health Equity in Georgia https://vimeo.com/691165764/b6145c4654

03-28-2022 Telehealth in Rural Settings A Year in Review https://vimeo.com/701660690/0c26327bb0

04-25-2022 Special Session with Chronic Diseases - Diabetes and Stroke Efforts in Georgia https://vimeo.com/710307302/430f04fae5

05-09-2022 NeuroVascular Learning Cases for Coverdell Leadership https://vimeo.com/710401043/4518fc38ce

06-27-2022 Health Equity/Zcodes/Wellstar Community Assessment https://vimeo.com/724981031/424dcf60e8

07-11-2022 Interfacility Transfer https://vimeo.com/730064926/134af13e19

07-25-2022 Collaboration Session 2 Diabetes Prevention Program https://vimeo.com/733375903/df8db8612b

09-12-2022 Stroke Case Study: Difficult Case https://vimeo.com/748914762/b9212dc5c2

09-26-2022 Implicit Bias https://vimeo.com/754481806/467464b4d9

10-17-2022 Stroke Campaign Finding https://vimeo.com/761545597/aef967d34f

10-31-2022 Interfacility Transfer Part II https://vimeo.com/766473530/942ae32335

11-14-2022 Cryptogenic Stroke and Cancer https://vimeo.com/771169852/d858a45839

12-12-2022  Invisible Disability Social Vulnerability Index https://vimeo.com/781151950/57f2cd2ec5

Page last updated 5/21/24