Peter Hutchinson
Senior Academy Fellow and Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon
Interests
My research areas include acute brain injury (head injury, subarachnoid haemorrhage), decompressive craniectomy in head injury and stroke, multimodality monitoring (intracranial pressure, brain tissue oxygen, intracerebral microdialysis), brain imaging (PET and MRI) and cerebral tumours (microdialysis, gene therapy).
Research focus
Key publications
Mannion RJ, Cross J, Bradley P, Coles JP, Chatfield D, Carpenter A, Pickard JD, Menon DK, Hutchinson PJ (2007), “A mechanism-based MRI classification of traumatic brainstem injury and its relationship to outcome” J Neurotrauma 24:128-35 Details
Timofeev I, Czosnyka M, Nortje J, Smielewski, P, Kirkpatrick PJ, Gupta AK, Hutchinson PJ (in press), “Effect of decompressive craniectomy on intracranial pressure and cerebrospinal compensation following traumatic brain injury” J Neurosurg: in press
Tseng MY, Hutchinson PJ, Czosnyka M, Richards H, Pickard JD, Kirkpatrick PJ (2007), “Effects of Acute Pravastatin Treatment on Intensity of Rescue Therapy, Length of Inpatient Stay” and 6-Month Outcome in Patients After Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Stroke: epub ahead of prin