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 Brain Symposium which took place in March 2023. Scroll down to read a summary of the talk and view the presentation slides.
Summary
In this podcast, Nick Little talks about the statistics of outcomes following mild, moderate and severe TBI and then goes on to tackle the harder topic of how we try to work out what an individual would want if they knew the spectrum of outcomes that they may face. The issues with the clinical examination findings we use to prognosticate are covered, as well as which imaging findings he finds most helpful. He also mentions the difficulties with current prognostic calculators.
