The following is the schedule for this continuing legal education program that will be offered on Tuesday nights from 6 to 8:30 p.m. It includes 9 hours of substantive credit and 1 hour of ethics:<\/p>\n
March 13, 2018<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Week one will provide an overview of the nervous system from a structural and functional point of view. It will also include a discussion of ethical issues that arise in medicine such as end of lie issues in spinal cord and traumatic brain injuries, healthcare power of attorney documents, and concurrent surgery.<\/p>\n March 20, 2018<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The second session will examine the spinal cord and will provide an explanation of this structure from an anatomic and physiologic stand point. The mechanism and consequences of a spinal cord injury will be examined as you learn the difference between a tetraplegic and paraplegic and the special challenges produced by these injuries.<\/p>\n March 27, 2018<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The third week will discuss the peripheral nervous system; the cranial and spinal nerves.\u00a0 The twelve cranial nerves are part of the standard medical examination and can be affected by an injury to the face or brain. The spinal nerves carry motor, sensory, and autonomic signals between the spinal cord and the body. An injury to these nerves can affect the movement of a muscle as well as alter sensation to a body part.<\/p>\n April 3, 2018<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The last segment is devoted to the brain; the command center for the nervous system.\u00a0 This class will examine the functional areas of the brain, such as the cortical regions, basal ganglia, cerebrum and cerebellum, and will examine traumatic brain injuries.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The following is the schedule for this continuing legal education program that will be offered on Tuesday nights from 6 to 8:30 p.m. It includes 9 hours of substantive credit …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"coauthors":[4],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.law.temple.edu\/events\/medlaw2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.law.temple.edu\/events\/medlaw2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.law.temple.edu\/events\/medlaw2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.law.temple.edu\/events\/medlaw2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.law.temple.edu\/events\/medlaw2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www2.law.temple.edu\/events\/medlaw2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/www2.law.temple.edu\/events\/medlaw2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.law.temple.edu\/events\/medlaw2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.law.temple.edu\/events\/medlaw2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}