Non Convulsive Status Epilepticus with Dr. Roderick Fontenette

In this episode, we discuss NCSE with LTC (ret) Roderick Fontenette.Dr. Roderick Fontenette is a board-certified Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine physician. He completed his undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Maryland University College Asian Division while serving on active duty in the United States Air Force in Misawa, Japan. He attended medical school at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, LA. He completed emergency medicine residency training at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in partnership with the Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University in Dayton, OH and Critical Care fellowship training with Indiana University Health at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, IN. He completed his Master of Health Care Management from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. His most recent Air Force assignment was as the Associate Program Director for one of the Air Force's four Emergency Medicine residency programs partnered with UC Davis Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine in Sacramento, CA. Dr. Fontenette recently retired from the Air Force after serving 21 years on active duty. During his time on active duty, he completed several deployments to locations such as Afghanistan, Djibouti, Kuwait, Turkey, and Germany, where he provided critical care air transport. He served as the Critical Care Air Transport Team Theater Director during the Afghanistan drawdown and provided high acuity transport for joint and international forces. He now works as the Medical Director of the Intensive Care Unit at St. Helena Hospital in the Napa Valley and does academic Emergency Medicine at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, CA. He has lectured nationally and internationally on a wide range of emergency medicine and critical care medicine topics and has an interest in neurologic emergencies and resuscitative medicine. Further Resources:NCSE Edu - https://ncse-edu.com/ Neurocritical Care Society - https://www.neurocriticalcare.org/ Brain Trauma Foundation - https://braintrauma.org/AHA Post resuscitation guidelines - https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001375https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001375