Core 1
Core 1 Module - 2028
Program
HYDROCEPHALUS
- CSF Physiology
- Antenatal ventriculomegaly / hydrocephalus
- Perinatal hydrocephalus
- Malformative hydrocephalus
- Postinfectious hydrocephalus
- Permanent drainage - shunt systems
- Permanent drainage - Endoscopic third ventriculostomy
- How to determine CSF drainage success
- CSF drainage complications and how to avoid them
SUrgical techniques for CSF drainage
- Ventricular anatomy and endoscopic landmarks
- How to do temporary drainage
- How to implant a ventriculoperitoneal shunt
- How to implant a ventriucloatrial shunt
- How to implant a lumboperitoneal shunt
- How to do an endoscopic third ventriuclostomy
- How not to miss the ventricles
CSF collections
- Surgical management of arachnoid cysts - suprasellar, Sylvian, quadrigeminal cistern
- Surgical management of posterior fossa cysts - Dandy Walker and its variants
- Ruptured arachnoid cysts
Intracranial infection
- Intracranial abscess
- Subdural empyema
- Intracranial infection in the infant
- Tuberculosis
- Cysticercosis
- Parasitic infections
- Prevention of infection in neurosurgery
Vascular malformations
- Classification of paediatric vascular malformations
- Paediatric aneurysms
- Arteriovenous malformation - endovascular intervention and radiotherapy
- Arteriovenous malformation - surgical management
- Vein of Galen Malformations
- Moya Moya Disease and Syndrome
Craniofacial anomalies
- Classification , pathogenesis and genetics of craniofacial anomalies
- Nonsyndromic craniostenosis and their neurosurgical aspects
- Syndromic craniostenosis and their neurosurgical aspects
- Principle of anterior skull surgery
- Principles of posterior skull surgery
- Positional plagiocephaly
- Management of Chiari, hydrocephalus, syrinx and intracranial hypertension in craniofacial disorders
- Anterior encephalocoeles
- Posterior encephalocoeles
- Cutis aplasia
- Dermoid and dermal sinus tracts - cranial
- Sinus pericranii
Spinal dysraphism
- Embryology and classification of spinal malformation
- Myelomeningocoele - antenatal and perinatal management
- Myelomeningocoele - management of hydrocephalus
- Myelomeningocoele - surgical repair
- Long term management of spinal malformations - how to assess cord tethering
- Lumbosacral lipomas - when to operate
- Limited dorsal myeloschisis
- Dermoid cyst and dermal sinus - spinal
- Diastematomyelia
- Role of intraoperative monitoring in spinal surgery
craniovertebral junction anomalies
- Embryology of the craniovertebral junction
- Radiology and morphology of CVJ malformations
- Principles of CVJ stabilisation
- Chiari 1
- Chiari 0 and 1.5
- How to repair a Chiari malformation
- Management of syringomyelia
- Management of scoliosis
TRAUMA
- Non accidental injury
- Intracranial haemorrhage
- Diffuse axonal injury management
- Growing skull fractures
- The role of intracranial monitoring in severe head injuries
- Spinal cord injury in children
- Spinal column injury in children
- Management of cerebrospinal fluid leak