- South West Neurosurgery Centre, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Derriford Hospital
- peter.whitfield@plymouth.ac.uk
Profiles
Mr Peter Whitfield
Honorary Associate Professor (Clinical Senior Lecturer)
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2016
'Evaluating the educational environment of an international animal model-based wet lab course for undergraduate students'
Annals of Medicine and Surgery
12,
8-17
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'Management of CSF leak in base of skull fractures in adults'
British Journal of Neurosurgery
30,
(6)
596-604
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'A case of spontaneous haematoma from vertebral artery arterio-venous fistula in a patient with neurofibromatosis type 1'
British Journal of Neurosurgery
1-2
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'Simulation in neurosurgical training: a blueprint and national approach to implementation for initial years trainees'
British Journal of Neurosurgery
30,
(5)
577-581
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'Head injury in the elderly - what are the outcomes of neurosurgical care?'
World neurosurgery
94,
493-500
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'Early versus late readmission of subarachnoid haemorrhage patients into neurocritical care'
British Journal of Neurosurgery
30,
(5)
545-548
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'Neurosurgical Care in the Elderly: Increasing Demands Necessitate Future Healthcare Planning'
World Neurosurgery
87,
446-454
, DOI
2016
'Postpartum Regression of a Presumed Cavernous Meningioma'
Case Reports in Oncological Medicine
2016,
1-3
, DOI
2015
'Proceedings of the 2015 Spring Meeting of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons jointly with, as invited guests, the German Society of Neurosurgery (DGNC – Deutche Gessellschaft für Neurochirurgie)'
British Journal of Neurosurgery
29,
(2)
124-163
, DOI
2013
'Proposal for establishment of the UK Cranial Reconstruction Registry (UKCRR)'
British Journal of Neurosurgery
28,
(3)
310-314
, DOI
2013
'Seven years of cranioplasty in a regional neurosurgical centre'
British Journal of Neurosurgery
28,
(1)
34-39
, DOI
2012
'Traumatic brain injury: review of current management strategies'
Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg
50,
(4)
298-308
, DOI
2011
'An association between cerebral aneurysm re-bleed and CT angiography--more than a coincidence?'
Br J Neurosurg
25,
(6)
734-735
, DOI
2007
'Multiple method verification of the positional accuracy of linac based stereotactic radiosurgery and radiotherapy'
CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
19,
(3)
S44-S44
, DOI
2007
'Custom made cranioplasty prostheses in porous hydroxy-apatite using 3D design techniques: 7 years experience in 25 patients - Comment'
ACTA NEUROCHIRURGICA
149,
(2)
170-170
2006
'Mechanisms of secondary brain damage for trauma and ischaemia recent advances of our understanding'
DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION
28,
(2)
141-142
2003
'Cost-effective outcome for treating poor-grade subarachnoid hemorrhage'
Stroke
34,
(10)
2508-2511
, DOI
2003
'Metastatic adenocarcinoma masquerading as a solitary nerve sheath tumour'
Br J Neurosurg
17,
(5)
459-461
2002
'Cerebral autoregulation among patients with symptoms of hydrocephalus'
Neurosurgery
50,
(3)
526-532
, DOI
2001
'Cerebral venous blood outflow: a theoretical model based on laboratory simulation'
Neurosurgery
49,
(5)
1214-1222
, DOI
2001
'Age dependence of cerebrospinal pressure—volume compensation in patients with hydrocephalus'
Journal of Neurosurgery
94,
(3)
482-486
, DOI
2001
'Preliminary experience of the estimation of cerebral perfusion pressure using transcranial Doppler ultrasonography'
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry
70,
(2)
198-204
, DOI
2001
'Bifrontal decompressive craniectomy in the management of posttraumatic intracranial hypertension'
Br J Neurosurg
15,
(6)
500-507
2001
'Timing of surgery for aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage'
Cochrane Database Syst Rev
(2)
, DOI
2000
'Expression of the immediate early genes c-Fos and c-Jun after head injury in man'
Neurol Res
22,
(2)
138-144
1999
'Delayed induction of JunB precedes CA1 neuronal death after global ischemia in the gerbil'
Brain Res
818,
(2)
450-458
, DOI
1996
'Shunt removal by choroid plexus coagulation - Response'
JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY
85,
(5)
982-983
1996
'An audit of aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage: earlier resuscitation and surgery reduces inpatient stay and deaths from rebleeding'
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry
60,
(3)
301-306
, DOI
1996
'The surgical management of patients with glomus tumours of the skull base'
Br J Neurosurg
10,
(4)
343-350
1995
'Safe removal of retained ventricular catheters using intraluminal choroid plexus coagulation. Technical note'
J Neurosurg
83,
(6)
1101-1102
, DOI
1995
'SAFE REMOVAL OF RETAINED VENTRICULAR CATHETERS USING INTRALUMINAL CHOROID-PLEXUS COAGULATION'
JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY
83,
(6)
1101-1102
, DOI
1995
'ICP REDUCTION FOLLOWING DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY'
STROKE
26,
(6)
1125-1126
1995
'An observational study of near-infrared spectroscopy during carotid endarterectomy'
J Neurosurg
82,
(5)
756-763
, DOI
1994
'Nimodipine'
Br J Hosp Med
52,
(10)
539-540
1994
'Suctionversus siphon drainage after axillary surgery for breast cancer: A prospective randomized trial'
British Journal of Surgery
81,
(4)
547-547
, DOI
1994
'Pneumocephalus: a hazard of pipe smoking'
Injury
25,
(2)
120-121
1992
'The cerebrovascular response to experimental lateral head acceleration'
Acta Neuropathol
84,
(3)
289-296
, DOI
Letters
2001
'Management of severe traumatic brain injury by decompressive craniectomy'
Neurosurgery
49,
(1)
225-226
, DOI
1997
'Glomus tumours of the skull base'
Br J Neurosurg
11,
(3)
Books
Whitfield PC; Thomas EO; Summers F; Whyte M; Hutchinson PJ
2009
head injury a multidisciplinary approach.
Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
Conference Papers
2010
'TIME IS BRAIN'
S419-S419