- South West Neurosurgery Centre, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, PL6 8DH
- peter.whitfield@plymouth.ac.uk
Profiles
Mr Peter Whitfield
Honorary Lead for Professionalism
Peninsula Medical School (Faculty of Health)
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2020 'The changing face of neurosurgery for the older person' Journal of Neurology 267, (8) 2469-2474 , DOI PEARL
2020 'Brainstem cavernous malformations – no longer a forbidden territory? A systemic review of recent literature' Neurochirurgie 66, (2) 116-126 , DOI
2019 'Dex-CSDH randomised, placebo-controlled trial of dexamethasone for chronic subdural haematoma: report of the internal pilot phase' Scientific Reports 9, (1) , DOI PEARL
2019 'Current epidemiology of cerebrospinal fluid shunt surgery in the UK and Ireland (2004–2013)' Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 90, (7) 747-754 , DOI PEARL
2019 'Correction to: Dexamethasone for adult patients with a symptomatic chronic subdural haematoma (Dex-CSDH) trial: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial' Trials 20, (1) , DOI PEARL
2019 'Decompressive Hemicraniectomy in the Treatment of Malignant Middle Cerebral Artery Infarction: A Meta-Analysis' World Neurosurgery 123, 8-16 , DOI
2019 'Correlation Between Cost of Publication and Journal Impact. Comprehensive Cross-sectional Study of Exclusively Open-Access Surgical Journals' Journal of Surgical Education 76, (1) 107-119 , DOI
2018 'Dexamethasone for adult patients with a symptomatic chronic subdural haematoma (Dex-CSDH) trial: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial' Trials 19, (1) , DOI PEARL
2018 'Increasing motivation and engagement in neurosurgery for medical students through practical simulation-based learning' Annals of Medicine and Surgery 34, 75-79 , DOI PEARL
2018 'A pilot study of trainee-led near-peer undergraduate teaching in neurosurgery' International Journal of Surgery 55, S102-S102 , DOI
2018 'Does open-access provide an opportunity or pose a barrier? A comprehensive survey on the cost of publication in exclusively open-access surgical journals' International Journal of Surgery 55, S102-S102 , DOI
2018 'Treatment options and pathophysiology of degenerative spine disease' Surgery (Oxford) 36, (7) 362-369 , DOI
2018 'Outcomes following surgery in subgroups of comatose and very elderly patients with chronic subdural hematoma' Neurosurgical Review 42, (2) 427-431 , DOI PEARL
2018 'The evolution of British neurosurgical selection and training over the past decade' Medical Teacher 40, (6) 610-614 , DOI
2017 'Prospective, multicentre study of external ventricular drainage-related infections in the UK and Ireland' Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 89, (2) 120-126 , DOI PEARL
2017 'The management and outcome for patients with chronic subdural hematoma: a prospective, multicenter, observational cohort study in the United Kingdom' Journal of Neurosurgery 127, (4) 732-739 , DOI
2017 'Giant vertebrobasilar aneurysm: a rare cause of central sleep apnoea' British Journal of Neurosurgery 33, (5) 559-561 , DOI
2017 'What Factors Determine Treatment Outcome in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage in the Modern Era? A Post Hoc STASH Analysis' World Neurosurgery 105, 270-281 , DOI
2017 'Pathophysiology of chronic subdural haematoma: inflammation, angiogenesis and implications for pharmacotherapy' Journal of Neuroinflammation 14, (1) , DOI PEARL
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 'Trial of Decompressive Craniectomy for Traumatic Intracranial Hypertension' New England Journal of Medicine 375, (12) 1119-1130 , DOI
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 PEARL
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
2010 'No Association between Intraoperative Hypothermia or Supplemental Protective Drug and Neurologic Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Temporary Clipping during Cerebral Aneurysm Surgery' Anesthesiology 112, (1) 86-101 , DOI
2009 'PERIOPERATIVE FEVER AND OUTCOME IN SURGICAL PATIENTS WITH ANEURYSMAL SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE' Neurosurgery 64, (5) 897-909 , DOI
2009 'Effect of Nitrous Oxide Use on Long-term Neurologic and Neuropsychological Outcome in Patients Who Received Temporary Proximal Artery Occlusion during Cerebral Aneurysm Clipping Surgery' Anesthesiology 110, (3) 563-573 , DOI
2009 'Intracranial pressure and cerebral blood flow. A pathophysiological and clinical perspective' Surgery (Oxford) 27, (3) 139-144 , 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 'Autoreactive antibodies against neurons and basal lamina found in serum following experimental brain contusion in rats - Comment' ACTA NEUROCHIRURGICA 148, (2) 205-205
2006 'Mechanisms of secondary brain damage for trauma and ischaemia recent advances of our understanding' DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION 28, (2) 141-142
2005 'Mild intraoperative hypothermia during surgery for intracranial aneurysm' NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 352, (2) 135-145 , DOI
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 , DOI
2002 'Cerebral autoregulation among patients with symptoms of hydrocephalus' Neurosurgery 50, (3) 526-532 , DOI
2001 'Bifrontal decompressive craniectomy in the management of posttraumatic intracranial hypertension' Br J Neurosurg 15, (6) 500-507 , DOI
2001 'Cerebral venous blood outflow: a theoretical model based on laboratory simulation' Neurosurgery 49, (5) 1214-1222 , DOI
2001 'Management of severe traumatic brain injury by decompressive craniectomy' Neurosurgery 49, (1) 225-226 , DOI
2001 'Age dependence of cerebrospinal pressure-volume compensation in patients with hydrocephalus' J Neurosurg 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 '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 , DOI
1999 'Delayed induction of JunB precedes CA1 neuronal death after global ischemia in the gerbil' Brain Res 818, (2) 450-458 , DOI
1997 'Glomus tumours of the skull base (multiple letters) [2]' British Journal of Neurosurgery 11, (3)
1997 'Glomus tumours of the skull base' Br J Neurosurg 11, (3)
1996 'Shunt removal by choroid plexus coagulation - Response' JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY 85, (5) 982-983
1996 'The surgical management of patients with glomus tumours of the skull base' Br J Neurosurg 10, (4) 343-350 , DOI
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
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 'Suction versus siphon drainage after axillary surgery for breast cancer: a prospective randomized trial' Br J Surg 81, (4) , DOI
1992 'The cerebrovascular response to experimental lateral head acceleration' Acta Neuropathol 84, (3) 289-296 , DOI
Books
2020 Traumatic Brain Injury A Multidisciplinary Approach. Cambridge University Press
Whitfield PC; Thomas EO; Summers F; Whyte M; Hutchinson PJ 2009 head injury a multidisciplinary approach. Cambridge Cambridge University Press
Chapters
2019 'Chapter 20: Overview of neuroanatomy' Gray's Surgical Anatomy Elsevier
2019 'Chapter 26: Cerebral vasculature' Gray's Surgical Anatomy Elsevier
2019 'Complications of head injury' Oxford Textbook of Neurological Surgery Oxford University Press, USA 521-529
2019 'Cerebrospinal Fluid Pressure Dynamics' Pediatric Hydrocephalus Springer International Publishing 293-326 , DOI
2014 'Neuroanatomy for the head and neck surgeon' Clinical Head and Neck Anatomy for Surgeons CRC Press 279-285
2014 'Skull base' Clinical Head and Neck Anatomy for Surgeons CRC Press 287-294
0 'Clinical assessment of the head-injured patient: an anatomical approach' Head Injury Cambridge University Press 28-35 , DOI
0 'Medico-legal aspects of head and neck injury' Head Injury Cambridge University Press 288-298 , DOI
0 'Surgical issues in the management of head-injured patients' Head Injury Cambridge University Press 167-179 , DOI
Conference Papers
2010 'TIME IS BRAIN' S419-S419
1997 'Inducible transcription factor expression after cerebral ischaemia'