Head injuries with consultant neurosurgeon Mark Wilson

In this session we will examine the fundamentals of head injury
with consultant neurosurgeon Mark Wilson. We will dig into the
details of brain injury, primary and secondary injury, the
importance of venous drainage, and optimising the pre-hospital
management.


Mark is a Consultant Neurosurgeon and Pre-Hospital Care
Specialist working at both Imperial College (mainly St Mary's
Major Trauma Centre) and as an Air Ambulance doctor. He is
also a Clinical Professor specialising in Brain Injury at
Imperial and Honorary Professor of Pre-Hospital Care (the Gibson
Chair) at the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care, Royal College of
Surgeons, Edinburgh. Marks’ specialist areas are acute brain
injury (mostly traumatic brain injury) and its very early
management. He is also  co-director of the Imperial
Neurotrauma Centre and co-founder of GoodSAM, a
revolutionary platform that alerts doctors, nurses, paramedic and
those trained in basic life support to emergencies around them.
He has worked extensively overseas (India, Nepal, South Africa,
as a GP in Australia, Researcher for NASA and as an expedition
doctor on Arctic and Everest expeditions).


In the episode we examine: 


Incidence of brain injury

TBI Vs NTBI pathology

Doctor/Paramedic teams within neurological injuries

Accuracy of our pre-hospital diagnoses with head injury

Do we triage patients to the right places.

Pre-hospital Anaesthesia and transfer to neurological units

The importance of the basics done well even before formative
PHC.

Pupils and wider, lesser-known symptomatology

Seminal case from Marks experience.

Final thoughts from Mark and take-home messages.






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