TIME

TOPIC

FACULTY

7am to 7.15am

Registration


7.15am to 7.20am

Welcome address

Ghanem Al Sulaiti

7.20am to 7.30am

Introduction to the course

Arshad Ali

Neurocritical Care

7.30am to 7.50am

Resuscitation and prioritizing in polytrauma patients

Gustav F. Strandavik

7.50am to 8.20am

Principles of neurocritical care

Hosam Aljehani

8.20am to 8.40am

Coma, brain death and brainstem criteria

Reem Bunyan

8.40am to 9am

Monitoring in Neurocritical care

Hussam Aljehani

9am to 9.30am

Questions and discussion


9.30am to 10am

Tea break


Acute Head Injuries

10am to 10.20am

Management of severe head injuries (fractures, contusions, EDH, SDH) in adults

Ahmed Doomi

10.20am to 10.50am

Pediatric head injuries - assessment and management

Khalid Alkharazi

10.50am to 11.20am

Head injuries - complications, delayed sequelae and predictors of long to term outcome

Hussam Aljehani

11.20am to 11.40am

Craniocervical vascular injuries - CCF and arterial dissections

Ayman Zakaria

11.40am to 12pm

Questions and discussion


12pm to 1pm

Lunch



CNS Infections

1pm to 1.40pm

Acute cerebrospinal infections (abscesses and empyema)

Hisham Zinglam

1.40pm to 2.20pm

Chronic cerebrospinal infections (TB, fungal, parasitic, opportunistic)

Hisham Zinglam

2.20pm to 3pm

Post to surgical infections (wounds. shunts, implant infection, discitis, osteomyelitis)

Saleh Baeessa

3pm to 3.30pm

Questions and discussion


3.30pm to 4pm

Tea Break


Neurology for Neurosurgeons

4pm to 4.20pm

Neurophysiology-EEG and EMG/nerve conduction studies, evoked potentials and intra-operative monitoring

Liaqat Ali

4.20pm to 4.40pm

Peripheral neuropathies and entrapment

Mubarak Al qahtani

4.40pm to 5pm

Seizures. classification and management

Gonzalo Garcia

5pm to 5.20pm

Lesion localization

Gayane Melikyan

5.20pm to 5.30pm

Questions and discussions


5.30pm

Daily feedback and adjourn


6.30pm

Tips and tricks of board exam 

DINNER WITH FACULTY