MPBE Lunchtime Seminar presented by Prof Martin Smith

Join us for the March Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering Lunchtime Seminar, presented by Professor Martin Smith.

Abstract

Acute brain injury encompasses a continuum of primary and secondary injurious processes which, if unchecked, can lead to cerebral hypoxia-ischaemia and metabolic distress. Various brain monitoring techniques providing assessment of cerebral perfusion, oxygenation and metabolic status are used to guide individualised treatment strategies aimed at preventing or minimizing secondary brain injury and improving patient outcomes. Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) has potential advantages over established monitoring techniques; it is non-invasive, has high temporal and spatial resolution and offers simultaneous measurement over multiple regions of interest. This lecture will present a personal perspective of a three decade collaboration between clinical and basic scientists at UCL, highlighting technological and methodological advances in NIRS systems for multimodality brain monitoring during the neurocritical care management of acutely brain-injured adults.

Bio

Martin Smith is Honorary Consultant in Neurocritical Care at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College London Hospitals, and Honorary Professor at University College London. He has a clinical and research interest in monitoring and managing the acutely injured brain, and a long-standing research collaboration with colleagues from the Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory. Martin is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology, and Past President of the Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care.