Trauma & Emergency Surgery
Head Injury
A lecture on head injury grounded in the physiology: the Monro-Kellie doctrine, the volume-pressure curve, and why cerebral perfusion pressure governs everything you do for the patient.
What this lecture covers
- The Monro-Kellie doctrine and the volume-pressure curve
- Intracranial pressure and cerebral perfusion pressure
- Autoregulation and when it fails
- Classification by morphology: skull fractures and brain injury
- Clinical classification and the Glasgow Coma Scale
- Scalp injuries, skull fractures, and intracranial haematomas
- Imaging and what to look for
- Medical and surgical management of raised pressure
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