Evaluating and Supporting Patients Presenting with Cognitive Symptoms Following COVID

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Overview

During this COCA Call, presenters will discuss post-COVID conditions (PCC), an umbrella term for the wide range of health consequences that are present four or more weeks after infection with SARS-CoV-2, which includes long COVID. Cognitive symptoms, often described by patients as "brain fog", are frequently reported following SARS-CoV-2 infection. The American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPM&R) has recently published a Multi-Disciplinary Collaborative Consensus Guidance Statement on the Assessment and Treatment of Cognitive Symptoms in PCC that provides practical guidance to clinicians in the assessment and treatment of individuals with cognitive symptoms and a history consistent with PCC. The burden of PCC is expected to reflect the disproportionate burden of infection by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status and to highlight ongoing inequities in health care. The Health Equity Work Group of the AAPM&R has developed guidance to highlight the central role that principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion play in delivering quality health care.

Presenters

Jennifer Cope, MD, MPH
Medical Officer
Post-COVID Conditions Team
Epidemiology Task Force
COVID-19 Response
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Michelle Haddad, PhD
Director of Post-COVID Neuropsychology Clinic
Director of Inpatient Neuropsychology
Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine & Neurology
Emory University School of Medicine

Jeffrey S. Fine, MD, FAAPMR
Associate Professor and Vice Chair, Rusk Rehabilitation
Dept of Rehabilitation Medicine and Dept of Medicine
NYU Langone Health

Talya K. Fleming, MD
Assistant Professor and Medical Director
JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute
Dept of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Hackensack Meridian Medicine

Call Objectives

Activity-specific objectives

1. Describe cognitive symptoms associated with post-COVID conditions (PCC).
2. Determine which clinical assessments and tests are needed for an individual patient with cognitive symptoms.
3. Apply health equity considerations to clinical care, activity management, and reconditioning of long COVID patients.

COCA Call Objectives

1. Cite background information on the topic covered during the presentation.
2. Discuss CDC's role in the topic covered during the presentation.
3. Describe the topic's implications for clinicians.
4. Discuss concerns and/or issues related to preparedness for and/or response to urgent public health threats.
5. Promote health improvement, wellness, and disease prevention in cooperation with patients, communities, at-risk populations, and other members of an interprofessional team of healthcare providers.

Additional Resources

• AAPM&R Guidance Statement: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pmrj.12745
• Presentation tables (also available in PowerPoint slides), includes recommendations, screening tools, strategies, health equity considerations and more: https://www.aapmr.org/docs/default-source/news-and-publications/covid/cognitive-symptoms-guidance-tables-030222.pdf?sfvrsn=e38e287c_0pdf
  

Continuing Education

To receive continuing education (CE) for WC4520-050522 – Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) Calls/Webinars – Evaluating and Supporting Patients Presenting with Cognitive Symptoms Following COVID, Thursday, May 5, 2022, please visit TCEO and follow these 9 Simple Steps by Monday, June 6, 2022.

To receive continuing education (CE) for WD4520-050522 – Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) Calls/Webinars – Evaluating and Supporting Patients Presenting with Cognitive Symptoms Following COVID, Thursday, May 5, 2022, (Web on Demand), please visit TCEO and follow these 9 Simple Steps between Tuesday, June 7, 2022, and Friday, June 7, 2024

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CDC, our planners, and presenters wish to disclose they have no financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients, with the exception of Dr. Talya Fleming who would like to disclose that she received a research grant from NuStep and served as co-principal investigator for Stroke Rehabilitation Clinical Research Trial. All grant funds are received and managed by hospital organization.

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Target Audience

• Physicians
• Nurses
• Pharmacists
• Veterinarians
• Physician Assistants
• Health Educators
• Other Clinicians

Additional Information

• Contact Information: coca@cdc.gov
• Support/Funding: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emergency Risk Communication Branch
• Method of Participation: You may participate in the educational activity by viewing the program information above.