About this event

  • Date and time Wed 14 Nov 2018 from 6:00pm to 12:00am
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine
  • Organised by Critical Care

Welcome to the first Critical Care event of the 2018/2019 academic year.

We are kicking off with our Trainee series with this meeting that will cover all key aspects of assessment and management of traumatic brain injury, and non-traumatic intracranial neurological emergencies.

Topics include:

  • How to assess and manage patients with traumatic brain injury
  • Deeper understanding of assessment, diagnosis and management of some common non-traumatic intracranial neurological emergencies including: stroke, sub-arachnoid haemorrhage, status epilepticus and post-anoxic brain damage
  • The physiology of intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring
  • Interpret basic ICP waveforms
  • The types of ICP monitoring devices

Agenda

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Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction

Dr Nishita Desai, Intensive Care Medicine Trainee and Trainee Representative, Critical Care Medicine Section, Royal Society of Medicine

Traumatic brain injury

Dr Manni Waraich, Consultant, Neurointensive Care and Neuroanaesthetics, Southampton General Hospital

Questions and answers
Intracranial pressure monitoring

Dr Manni Waraich, Consultant, Neurointensive Care and Neuroanaesthetics, Southampton General Hospital

Refreshment break
Non-traumatic intracranial neurological emergencies

Dr Ugan Reddy, Consultant in Neuroanaesthesia and neurocritical care, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

Questions and answers
Close of meeting
Drinks reception

Location

Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom