NSUR 709A Neurosurgery

Credits: 4
This intensive exposure to clinical neurosurgery is intended for students with a serious interest in the clinical neurosciences. Students work closely with the resident team in day-to-day patient care taking call, working up new patients in both the outpatient clinic and inpatient setting, scrubbing with the residents and faculty in the operating room, and following patients though their postoperative courses. Head and spine trauma, brain tumors, stroke, aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, chronic pain syndromes, degenerative spine disease, hydrocephalus, spina bifida, movement disorders, and medically intractable epilepsy are the more common clinical problems encountered. The ICU management of critically ill neurosurgical patients is an integral part of the rotation. Placement is at OHSU.

Graded: Pass/No pass
May be repeated for credit