Doctorate
Doctorate Title: Toward Improving Prehospital Triage of Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury.
Doctorate Description: To identify challenges and facilitators to adopting new decision aids to enhance TBI diagnosis in the prehospital setting.
- To explore the clinical potential and feasibility of using clinical decision aids and/or point-of-care brain biomarkers to guide triage of patients with suspected traumatic brain injury in the prehospital setting.
Details:
Type: PhD
University: University of Manchester
Primary Supervisor: Professor Richard Body & Professor Fiona Lecky
Category: Trauma
Funding:
Start Date: 2021
End Date: 2024
Status: Ongoing
Thesis
Awaiting
Research Interests
Major trauma, TBI, Triage.
Publications
Alqurashi N, Alotaibi A, Bell S, Lecky F, Body R. The Diagnostic Accuracy of Prehospital Triage Tools in Identifying Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury: A Systematic Review. Injury. 2022 Feb 12.
Bazaie N, Alghamdi I, Alqurashi N, Ahmed Z. The Impact of a Cervical Collar on Intracranial Pressure in Traumatic Brain Injury Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Trauma Care. 2022 Mar;2(1):1-0.
