Pediatric Sports-Related Concussion: New Information
Show: Healthy Children - The Talk Show for Parents
Guest(s)
Dr. Todd Maugans
Topic
Concussion
Topic Info
Much media attention has been given to pediatric sports-related injuries, but questions still exist as to what happens to a child’s brain after sustaining a sports-related concussion (SRC). Dr. Todd Maugans, lead author
of the study "Pediatric Sports-Related Concussion Produces
Cerebral Blood Flow Alterations", comes on the show to discuss these new findings and give parents, coaches and trainers this vital information that could help protect a young athlete.
Guest Info
Todd Maugans, MD, joined the division of pediatric neurosurgery as assistant professor and pediatric neurosurgeon at Cincinnati Children's Hospital medical center in April 2008. He practiced for four years at Dayton Children's Medical Center in Dayton Ohio and was appointed clinical assistant clinical professor of surgery at Wright State University School of Medicine. Prior to completing training in neurosurgery, he practiced and taught as a board certified family medicine specialist. He received his MD from Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA.
Dr. Maugans leads our division’s groundbreaking efforts to help children who are born with premature fusion of the sutures of the bony plates of the skull, a condition called craniosynostosis. In collaboration with colleagues in the division of plastic surgery, clinical and laboratory research is being done at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center under the umbrella of the Center for Craniofacial Disorders. Initiatives include the use of medications and techniques to minimize blood loss and extent of tissue manipulation while effectively correcting the skull and facial deformities associated with these conditions. Newer surgical techniques now allow for shorter hospital stays, smaller incisions and need for less blood transfusion.
In addition, Dr. Maugans employs some of the same techniques of minimal access surgery for treatment of arachnoid cysts of the brain, using an endoscope or microscope to allow better visualization of the surrounding structures without the need for large scars. He is also very active in the care of children with many types brain tumors, spina bifida and tethered spinal cords as well as those diagnosed with other birth defects of the skull, brain, spinal column and spinal cord.
Dr. Maugans is also actively engaged in research pertaining to pediatric concussion and brain tumors and birth defects associated with spina bifida.
Dr. Maugans leads our division’s groundbreaking efforts to help children who are born with premature fusion of the sutures of the bony plates of the skull, a condition called craniosynostosis. In collaboration with colleagues in the division of plastic surgery, clinical and laboratory research is being done at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center under the umbrella of the Center for Craniofacial Disorders. Initiatives include the use of medications and techniques to minimize blood loss and extent of tissue manipulation while effectively correcting the skull and facial deformities associated with these conditions. Newer surgical techniques now allow for shorter hospital stays, smaller incisions and need for less blood transfusion.
In addition, Dr. Maugans employs some of the same techniques of minimal access surgery for treatment of arachnoid cysts of the brain, using an endoscope or microscope to allow better visualization of the surrounding structures without the need for large scars. He is also very active in the care of children with many types brain tumors, spina bifida and tethered spinal cords as well as those diagnosed with other birth defects of the skull, brain, spinal column and spinal cord.
Dr. Maugans is also actively engaged in research pertaining to pediatric concussion and brain tumors and birth defects associated with spina bifida.
Host
Melanie Cole, M.S.
Original Air Date
11 / 30 / 2011
