King's College London

Aims

To advance research, innovation and education in Neurocritical care in children. This theme aims to improve Neurocritical care through research, education and multidepartment collaboration. This will improve care pathways and long-term outcomes for paediatric patients with neurological disease.

Focus areas

• Traumatic Brain Injury. Optimise the use of multimodal neuromonitoring modalities, both invasive and non-invasive, to improve early recognition of acute neurologic deterioration, and help guide management in a meaningful way that improves patient outcomes
• Neurosurgery and neurology. Improve the outcomes of critical care patients through studying neuromonitoring and improving sedation and neurological, psychological and physical outcomes related to this.
• Liver failure. Use of state-of-the-art and new technologies to evaluate and timely treat acute encephalopathy in children with acute and acute-on-chronic liver failure.
• Create Fellowship that is post CCT KHP/KCL-accredited Fellowship in Neuro-critical Care
• Education through an annual one-day course covering various aspects of neuro-critical, involving MDT colleagues from critical care, A&E, trauma, neurology, neurosurgery and therapies.

Leadership

• Dr Federico Minen (King’s College Hospital)- Lead for Paediatric Neurosurgery at KCH

Theme Membership and Internal collaborators

Bassel Zebian – Lead for Paediatric Neurosurgery at KCH- invited speaker in various National and International Conferences

David McCormick – Lead for Paediatric Neurology at KCH- Published on prognostication after traumatic brain injury

Bogdana Zoica – World expert in Neuro-POCUS and conducts national and international workshops on TCD

Dr Jozef Jarosz – Consultant Neuroradiologist/co Director Neurosciences Institute at KCH