Brain Impact Apnoea
Brain impact apneoa is an under-appreciated cause of morbidity and mortality in traumatic brain injury (TBI)
Category Neurosurgery
Limitations of CT in Traumatic Brain Injury
Limitations of CT head scan in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Cerebral Perfusion Pressure in TBI
Cerebral Perfusion Pressure (CPP) in Traumatic brain injury (TBI). Cerebral Perfusion Pressure (CPP) = MAP – ICP or CVP (whichever is highest)
External Ventricular Drain
External Ventricular Drain (EVD): ICP monitor than allows CSF drainage; measurement and treatment of raised ICP
Base of Skull Fracture
Base of Skull Fracture: fracture involving the floor of the cranial vault
Increased Intracranial Pressure in TBI
Increased Intracranial Pressure in TBI; normal ICP 7-15mmHg
sustained increases > 20mmHg is associated with ischaemic brain injury
Extradural ICP monitors
Extradural ICP monitor: ICP monitoring; catheter inserted though a burr hole but does not penetrate the dura
Codman ICP Monitor
Codman ICP Monitor: intracranial pressure monitor (aka 'BOLT')
Monro-Kellie doctrine
The Monro-Kellie doctrine or hypothesis states that the sum of volumes of brain, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and intracerebral blood is constant. An increase in one should cause a reciprocal decrease in either one or both of the remaining two.
Laza Lazarević
Lazar K. Lazarević (Лазаp К. Лазаревић) (1851 - 1891) was a Serbian psychiatrist, neurologist and writer
Roy Glenwood Spurling
Col. Roy Glenwood Spurling (1894 – 1968) was an American neurosurgeon. Eponymously affiliated with Spurling manoeuvre or Spurling Test described in 1944 as a provocative test of the cervical spine in cervical radiculopathy
Julius Arnold
Julius Arnold (1835 – 1915) was a German pathologist. Eponymously affiliated with Type II Chiari malformation (Arnold–Chiari malformation)