Neurosurgery For Junior Trainees

In the first three editions, this compact introduction to neurosurgery became firmly established as the indispensable vade mecum for new neurosurgical trainees. It is the perfect guide to the practicalities of the treatment and day-to-day ward management of neurosurgical patients.

The trainee is taken step-by-step through the procedures of patient admission, highlighting the key points of the history and examination, ensuring appropriate ward management, and interpreting CT scans and neurosurgical monitoring and scoring systems.

Interpretation of CT head scans, conduct of basic neurosurgical procedures, principles of neuro-intensive care, and hydrocephalus and shunt systems--all and more are covered in this thorough fourth edition.

Reuben D. Johnson,W. Adriaan Liebenberg

Reuben D. Johnson is a neurosurgeon in Wellington, New Zealand, where he is the Clinical Lead for Neurosurgery. He trained in Glasgow, London, Cambridge, Oxford, Melbourne, and Vicenza. Johnson completed a doctorate in Genetics of Human Language Evolution in the Department of Human Anatomy & Genetics in Oxford. He also has a dual qualification in law with an LLB from the University of London and is a Fellow of the Australasian College of Legal Medicine. He has an interest in Clinical Governance and has served on the Surgical Education and Training (SET) Board of Neurosurgery for the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia.

W. Adriaan Liebenberg is a neurosurgeon and founder of The Health Collective, a multidisciplinary healthcare group integrating pain management, family medicine, and lifestyle science. With over 20 years of clinical experience, he has been instrumental in advancing patient-centred care and interventional pain medicine in South Africa. As founder and director of The Pain Collective, a chapter of The Health Collective, he has pioneered evidence-based systems and sustainable models of care that improve access, quality, and education across the healthcare continuum.