Neurosurgical Nursing Professional Development 22nd Annual Conference

AGENDA

8:00am Welcome

Diane Lear, Chairperson NNPDSC

8:45am Posterior Circulation Aneurysms: Clinical Decision‑Making in Choosing Open Surgery Over Endovascular Therapy

Dr. Jacob Fairhall, Consultant Neurosurgeon, Prince of Wales Hospital

9.30am Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus

Dr Ananya Chakrovorty, Neurosurgical Registrar, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

10:15am Endovascular clot retrieval (ECR) and malignant MCA stroke

Dr. Blake Giarola, Interventional Neuroradiologist Royal North Shore and Westmead Hospitals

11:00 am Morning Tea

Nursing Case Studies and Lessons Learned

11:30am Royal North Shore Hospital

12:00am Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

12:30am Liverpool Hospital

1:00pm Lunch

2:00pm Spinal fractures – grading classifications and management

Dr. Daniel Scherman, Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon, Royal Prince Alfred Hopsital

2:45pm Artificial Disc Replacement Surgery v Spinal Fusion

Dr. Ashraf Dower, Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon, Nepean Hospital

3:30pm 'How do you do?'...an EVD?...a trauma craniotomy?...an awake craniotomy?

Dr. Jun Kim, Consultant Neurosurgeon Westmead Hospitals

4:15pm Evaluation and close