1202 - Electrodiagnosis of Weakness: An Interactive, Case-Based Approach

Thursday, October 20, 2022

3:30 PM – 4:45 PM ET

Location: 337-338

Session Director(s)

Sandra Hearn, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Michigan Medicine
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

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Faculty(s)

SJ

Shawn Jorgensen, MD

Clinical Professor
Albany Medical Center
Queensbury, New York

Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
Nassim Rad, MD

Assistant Professor
University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle, Washington

Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
Erik Ensrud, MD

Professor
University of Missouri Medical School
Columbia, Missouri

Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Cases will represent real-life presentations of weakness. With guidance from the preceptor, participants will sequentially select the components of the electrodiagnostic exam (NCS and muscles for EMG), clicking on appropriate studies with the data appearing in real time. Participants will actively discuss the choices, interpret the data aloud in real time and design the study, with faculty preceptor guidance to steer the discussion. In summarizing each case, the faculty preceptor will emphasize key electrodiagnostic features and how to design the study to adequately evaluate these. He or she will address interpretation of borderline or atypical findings, and discuss which features to highlight in the electrodiagnostic report.

Learning Objectives:

Formulate an electrodiagnostic approach for patient presenting with weakness.
Critically design and tailor an electrodiagnostic examination based on the clinical presentation as well as the data in real time as it is collected.
Interpret atypical or borderline data in challenging cases.
Determine the findings and features to report back to the referring provider and consider how our findings may influence care for a patient with a disorder presenting with weakness.

Presentations:

Introduction and Electrodiagnostic Approach + Case
Speaker: Sandra L. Hearn, MD – Michigan Medicine
Interactive, Round-table Case #2
Speaker: Anthony Chiodo, MD, MBA – University of Michigan Hospital
Interactive, Round-table Case #3
Speaker: Shawn P. Jorgensen, MD – Albany Medical Center
Interactive, Round-table Case #4
Speaker: Nassim Rad, MD – University of Washington School of Medicine