Updates in Spine Surgery and Management of Spinal Cord Injury
22nd September 2025, 19:00 to 20:00 BST
Overview
Join us for our first webinar in this new series, organised by the RCSEd Neurosurgery Surgical Specialty Board, aimed at medical students, surgical trainees and consultants with interest in spine surgery. The webinar will provide an overview on the most relevant publications in the field of spinal traumas and spinal cord injuries.
Aims
This webinar is meant to summarise the process undertaken to design and validate the classifications for spinal fractures and to present the recommendations from international guidelines on the management of patients with acute post-traumatic spinal cord injuries.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this webinar attendees will have a good understanding of the processes behind the designing and validating the AO Spine Classifications of Upper Cervical, Subaxial, Thoraco-Lumbar and Sacral Spinal Fractures.
The attendees will also be able to apply those classifcations in their daily practice and are expected to understand the rationale for the recommendations listed in the updated AO Spine Praxis guidelines for the management of patients with spinal cord injuries.
Panellists
Our panellists include:
- Mr Mario Ganau (Chair) - Consultant Neurosurgeon and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Neurosurgery, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom.
- Mr Manoj Khatri - Consultant Orthopaedic Spinal Surgeon, Royal Preston Hospital, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Preston, United Kingdom.
- Prof Michael G. Fehlings - Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
CPD
1 Hour
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Recording
A recording of the webinar will be made available on this page in the days following the live broadcast.
