Neurotraumatology and Neurointensive Care

March 2025

Neurotraumatology and Neurointensive Care

We welcome you again to Beitostølen to learn and discuss, and as always, the main focus is on group discussions.

As in previous years there will be exams in the curriculum of the course and neurosurgical anatomy. We will award the best exam results with prizes for both the general course curriculum and the neuroanatomy exam. Students doing research will also have the opportunity to present a short abstract on Thursday to earn both honor and a prize.

Evaluations and examinations will be collected and evaluated using the Socrative app. We encourage all participants to download and familiarize themselves with this software before coming to Beitostølen.

Come join us to discuss these, and many more, questions at next years version of the Scandinavian Course in Neurosurgery - Beitostølen 2025.

Curriculum

Greenberg's Handbook of Neurosurgery, chapters:

5 - Sodium Homeostasis and Osmolality

6 - General Neurocritical Care

18 - Coma

19 - Brain Death and Organ Donation

31.6 - Peripheral nerve injuries

31.7 - Missile injuries of peripheral nerves

51 - 64 - Head & Spine trauma

73.5 - Posttraumatic syringomyelia

...and the following: 

"A Trial of Intracranial-Pressure Monitoring in Traumatic Brain Injury"
N Engl J Med 2012;367:2471-2481

"Trial of Decompressive Craniectomy for Traumatic Intracranial Hypertension"
N Engl J Med 2016;375:1119-1130

"Optimal drainage time after evacuation of chronic subdural haematoma (DRAIN TIME 2): a multicentre, randomised, multiarm and multistage non-inferiority trial in Denmark"
The Lancet Neurology, Volume 23, Issue 8, 787 - 796

"Burr-hole drainage with or without irrigation for chronic subdural haematoma (FINISH): a Finnish, nationwide, parallel-group, multicentre, randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial"
Lancet. 2024 Jun 29;403(10446):2798-2806

Preliminary program