Description
This meeting will provide delegates with essential knowledge and top tips, to enable safe and effective assessment and management of key neurological and neurosurgical conditions.
These conditions may arise, or need to be excluded in an acutely unwell patient, whether on a specialist ward, in the A&E department or during an on-call shift.
There will be formal presentations and panel sessions during which delegates may ask questions of the presenters, and networking opportunities over coffee and lunch.
topics include:
Update on the effective assessment and management of key neurological and neurosurgical conditions which might arise or need to be excluded in an acutely unwell neurosurgical patient
Current best practice, new developments and clinical trials in progress
rates
RSM members: £24 – £48
Non-members: £40 – £80
Early bird rates expire Thursday 1 November 2018
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agenda
8.30 am
Registration, tea and coffee
8.55 am
Welcome and introduction
Miss Emma Dalton, Section Council Member, Clinical Neurosciences Section, Royal Society of Medicine
THE ELECTIVE PATIENT
9.00 am
Paediatric neurosurgery
Mr Alistair Jenkins, Consultant Neurosurgeon, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
9.30 am
Spinal neurosurgery
10.00 am
Vascular neurosurgery
10.30 am
Hydrocephalus
11.00 am
Panel discussion
NEUROSURGICAL EMERGENCIES
11.30 am
Cranial emergencies
Mr Kevin Tsang, Consultant Neurosurgeon, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
12.00 pm
Spinal emergencies
Mr Matthew Crocker, Consultant Neurosurgeon, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
12.30 pm
Panel discussion
12.45 pm
Lunch
THE MEDICAL PATIENT
1.45 pm
Neuroradiology
Dr Maneesh Bhojak, Consultant Neuroradiologist, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust
2.15 pm
Lecture title to be confirmed
2.45 pm
Acute neurology and neurocritical care
Dr Ari Cole, Consultant in Neurointensive Care, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
3.15 pm
Panel discussion
3.30 pm
Tea and coffee break
THE LEGAL CONSEQUENCES
3.45 pm
Lecture title to be confirmed
4.15 pm
The Coroner’s Court
Professor Paul Marks, HM Senior Coroner for the Counties of Kingston upon Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire
4.45 pm
Panel discussion
5.00 pm
Closing remarks