SNI Digital Podcast

SUMMARY: Dr. Ohaegbulam, is from Southern Nigeria, now in Enugu, and founder of the Memfys Multispecialty Hospital in that city. He grew up in Southern Nigeria and rode his bike to school that was distant from his home. He attended medical school in Cairo, Egypt graduated with exposure to Neurosurgery and had further training in the UK including the advanced Atkinson-Morely Hospital where he was e...

SUMMARY: Russell Blaylock, MD, presents his literature based investigations into the Cause of Cancer. Is cancer caused by Genetic changes-NO, Cellular damage-YES, Viruses-YES, Radiation-YES, and /or Chemotherapy-YES? If cancer is a genetic disease, how can the body have many cancers with different chromosomes that lead to common changes changes and to a fundamental uniform pathway to the formation...

SUMMARY: Dr. Frank Hsu and the UCIrvine Interdisciplinary Skull Base Surgery Group present their approach to Olfactory Groove meningiomas. (Drs. Hsu-neurosurgeon, Kuan-otolaryngologist, Malkasian-neurosurgeon-molecular biologist, Himsted -neurosurgeon-resident and others as consultants.) “Should the transnasal or intracranial approach be utilized?” Is discussed. How does the patient present to the...

SUMMARY: Drs Frank Hsu-Neurosurgeon, Ed Kuan-Otolaryngologist-Anterior Skull Base, Dennis Malkkasian-Neurosurgeon, Molecular Biologist, and Aleander Himsted-Neurosurgeon-Resident from the University of California at Irvine Skull Base team present their approach to Acoustic Neuromas considering the anatomy, molecular biology and clinical judgment aspects of surgery. Anatomically, what is the correc...

SUMMARY Dr. Marvin Bergsneider, who Co-Head of the Pituitary and Skull Base Surgery Section of Neurosurgery at UCLA discusses Pituitary tumors. For those of us who have forgotten pituitary physiology, all the 8 hormones related to the pituitary, come from control centers in the hypothalamus around the third ventricle. For the posterior pituitary, there are direct neural connections from the hypoth...

SUMMARY From the SubSaharan African Ground Rounds, Dr. Al-hassan Dasana Andani, a resident neurosurgeon in the Greater Accra Regional Hospital in Accra, Ghana, makes a wonderful presentation of a challenging case they saw in their Department of Neurosurgery of a patient with a multi-cystic thalamic mass in a deteriorating young patient. What should be done. Dr. Andani reviews the details of the pr...

SUMMARY: Richard Byrne , MD From Mayo Clinic in Florida discusses the influence of AI and LLM on medicine in the future. AI will have a significant impact but in a longer time frame that we think. AI is math which deals with data and numbers. LLM (Large Language Models) are language based deals with words. AI is excellent in dealing with data. “Large Language Model (LLM) is an advanced AI trained...

SUMMARY: In an interview with Dr. Richard Byrne, Dr. Ausman reviews the principles of micro-neurosurgery, and implementing Operations Analysis theories to the performance of surgery with the goal to reducing the probability of error to zero. Dr. Ausman describes all the components of achieving excellent results from preplanning of the operation, research on each case, operating room organization a...

SUMMARY: Dr. RIch Byrne discusses the challenges faced by those in medical school, residency, and postgraduate training and in practice. In Medical school the application process for residency consumes hours and days of time applying to a large number of programs, travel expenses, interviewing either in person or by Zoom, or in some selection mode, and the match. What are the flaws in this process...

SUMMARY: Dr. Abdul Hadi Al-Khalili, who is an honored and highly recognized neurosurgeon. in the Middle East and around the world is interviewed by Dr. Ausman. Dr. Al Khalili describes his 50-year career in coming from a 6-generation family of Iraqi Medicine physicians overcoming multiple obstacles along the way, to graduating medical school in Baghdad, learning ophthalmology in the UK changing to...

SUMMARY: Dr. Russell Blaylock provides a short update in Autism Spectrum. Disorders, a disease now commonly seen in young children with no previous known causes. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr , Secretary of Health and Human Services has made a priority of solving this disease that affects 1/12 young children. Dr. Blaylock has studied this disease for over 20 years because of his interest in the biochemica...

SUMMARY: How would you like to have surgery and lose your hearing or vision as a result? Not good. How does that happen? Dr. Nancy Epstein describes how these complications can happen with the solutions used in preparing the patient for surgery. They act while you are doing surgery and the patients wake up blind or deaf. Chlorhexidine Gluconate (CHG), Hibiclens, and Chloraprep (i.e. CHG-based solu...

SUMMARY: Dr. Russell Blaylock, interviewed by Dr. Ausman, describes the new direction the understanding of the causes of Cancer are taking. In the past, we believed that Cancer was a genetic disease, and so, the genetic composition of many cancers has been studied extensively. What was found was that there were wide variations in genetic abnormalities of cancers while one would expect that there m...

SUMMARY: Dr. Gary Steinberg describes how he treats deep brainstem cavernous malformations with Drs. Eric Nussbaum and James Ausman as Co-Discussants. Dr. Steinberg presents a series of cases of brainstem cavernous malformations that are in deep locations, which were formerly untreatable. Using meticulous surgical technique and detailed preplanning with MR imaging and tractography, and after choos...

SUMMARY: This is the recording of the 1st Latin American International Grand Rounds with SNI Digital® and the Latin American Neurosurgeons exchanging their experiences with a world audience. This meeting was organized by Joham Choque-Velasquez, MD, PhD of Cuzco, Peru. The title of the presentations were “Management of Middle Cerebral Aneurysms: Microsurgery vs Interventional Neurosurgery.” The fir...

SUMMARY: Dr. Noriko Salamon reviews a series of cases of Skull base lesions from their radiographic appearance. These are well presented and Dr. Salamon points out the challenges in their appearance on Imaging. Excellent talk. 60 Minutes Best for Video.

SUMMARY: Dr. Khalif Abdifatah presents a challenging case of Cerebral Venous Sinus thrombosis in a woman in the 1st trimester of pregnancy. She presented with Seizures, a venous infarct, could not take heparin, and was deteriorating. What would you do depending upon what resources you have? This is an excellent presentation with lots of discussion covering the details of treatment of this disease...

SUMMARY: CANCER IS A METABOLIC DISEASE: PART 2. CAUSES AND METABOLIC PATHWAYS TO CANCER AND MALIGNANCY Dr. Russell Blaylock describes the agents causing cancer. Agents include toxic metals as Aluminum, Flouride, Mercury, Pesticides, Microwave Radiation, anti-cancer agents, Radiation in all forms, traumatic injury to name a few. Each of these agents causes cellular damage to the CNS or body organs,...

SUMMARY: In Part 3 of Dr. Blaylock’s presentation on Cancer is a Metabolic Disease, he discusses a concept not comply heard that latent viruses in stem cells are fundamental to the development of a cancer cell. These viruses like the Cytomegalic Virus, Herpes virus and other viruses which and internalized by a person from the air and environment. The virus then is taken by the blood stream and ent...

SUMMARY: This is the recording of the 1st Latin American International Grand Rounds with SNI Digital® and the Latin American Neurosurgeons exchanging their experiences with a world audience. This meeting was organized by Joham Choque-Velasquez, MD, PhD of Cuzco, Peru. The title of the presentations were “Management of Middle Cerebral Aneurysms: Microsurgery vs Interventional Neurosurgery.” The fir...

SUMMARY: Parts 1 & 2. “Let’s Talk” Discussion on the topic of “Women in Neurosurgery”. In a wide-ranging discussion with a panel of women and men neurosurgeons, the challenges faced by women (and men) choosing neurosurgery as a career are discussed. Drs. Nancy Epstein, Kathrin Whitehouse, Saqiba Jadoon, Eric and Leslie Nussbaum and James Ausman, provide their perspectives on a number...

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SUMMARY:  WHAT IS YOUR FUTURE? AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. DAVID HUGHES ON WW III, OR OMNIWAR, - A FIGHT OF CENTRAL CONTROL VS INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY.  WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU. PART 1    SUMMARY Part 1: At the time of the 1930s there was the Great Economic Depression and the rise of Naziism in Germany and Communism in the Soviet Union. In the 1930s, the “elitest” segment of the populat...

SUMMARY: Drs Frank Hsu, Head of Neurosurgery at UC Irvine; Edward Kuan Professor of Otolaryngology and Co-director of the Comprehensive Skull Base program; Dennis Malkasian, Neurosurgeon, Molecular Biologist, and Anatomist, and Alexander Himstead, PGY 4 in Neurosurgery, moderated by Dr. Ausman, have an intergenerational discussion on the Present and Future of Skull Base surgery. The panel’s a...

SUMMARY:  Management of Clival Chordoma and giant Anterior and Middle Fossa Meningiomas: How we do it . From UC Irvine Skull Base Surgery Team; Frank Hsu, Edward Kuan, Dennis Malkasian; Alexander Himstead. CHORDOMA: history and examination; outstanding imaging, preoperative planning; Anatomical Diagrams, Choosing best approach to eliminate complications, endoscopy, microsurgery techniques, wh...