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Date Title & Description Contributors
2024-04-15

  EVD tips and tricks

Catherine Bell takes us through how to troubleshoot problems commonly encountered when looking after patients who have an external ventricular drain (EVD) in situ. Issues with using brain tissue oxygen monitors are also discussed. A highly practical se...
  Catherine Bell author
2024-02-25

  aSAH: Dilating the Dogman of Vasospasm

Angiographic vasospasm and more accurately, delayed cerebral ischemia, continue to contribute to morbidity and mortality in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). It is known that angiographic vasospasm is common after SAH, occurring i...
  Rob Loch MacDonald author
2024-02-12

  Subarachnoid Haemorrhage: a patient and family experience

Lizzy suffered a substantial aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage that left her critically unwell, requiring a long stay in intensive care recovering from the consequences and complications of this devastating form of stroke. Now a couple of years after...
  Emily Fitzgerald author
2024-01-30

  Brain Tissue Oxygen Monitoring - The Bonanza Trial (It’s Not What You’ve Got It’s What You Do With It)

Andrew Udy talks about the ongoing BONANZA Trial which is assessing whether an algorithm that incorporates both ICP and brain tissue oxygen (PbTO2) can improve outcomes after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Like with all monitoring, how the PbTO2 is inte...
  Andrew Udy author
2024-01-24

  Ketamine for Brain Injury

Historically, when it came to brain injury, ketamine had a bad rap. Much of that dogma was dispelled in the last 20 years, and ketamine is now frequently used as an induction agent in acute brain injury, especially traumatic brain injury, partially due...
  Toby Jeffcote author
2024-01-21

  Cortical Spreading Depolarisation in Neurological Disease - An Introduction

Cortical spreading depolarization (CSD) is a spreading loss of ion homeostasis, altered vascular response, change in synaptic architecture, and subsequent depression in electrical activity following an inciting neurological injury. This presentation wa...
  Toby Jeffcote author
2023-12-18

  There is no such thing as mild, moderate and severe TBI

Andrew Chow vs Andrew Udy  This debate was set up to discuss the issues with categorising traumatic brain injury (TBI). The current system using GCS to divide patients into mild, moderate and severe has been criticised in recent times, with calls for a...
  Andrew Chow & Andrew Udy author
2023-12-07

  TBI: when to stop and when to give time

Dr Nick Little is an experienced Neurosurgeon who's looked after patients with traumatic brain injury for his whole career. Here he discusses the difficulties of prognostication following traumatic brain injury (TBI).  This podcast was recorded at the ...
  Dr Nick Little author
2023-11-12

  EEG and Status Epilepticus

Tania Farrar is a neurologist and epileptologist with expertise in continuous EEG (cEEG) and status epilepticus (SE). This talk covers what a seizure is, what status is, including focal and generalised status epilepticus. This podcast was recorded at t...
  Tania Farrar author
2023-10-30

  Neuro Rehab: What Does Severe Disability Mean?

Stuart Browne is a Neuro Rehab specialist from Sydney. He discusses what "severe disability" really means.  Severe disability is more common than many realise - about 6% of the Australian population. Stuart discusses how health is more than simply phys...
  Stuart Browne author