Episode 80: How to Handle Neurosurgical Emergencies in the Peds ER? Interview with a Pediatric Neurosurgeon Dr. Todd Hankinson

As a PEM Physician, I get to take care of children with neurosurgical problems fairly often. Sometimes it is children with known issues such as hydrocephalus with a shunt and sometimes it is a patient with traumatic injury.  Pediatric neurosergeons are often life savers in those situations. Here is a conversation I had with Dr. Todd Hankinson, a Pediatric Neurosurgeon at Children’s Hospital of Colorado.