Barrow Neurosurgery Base Camp
Base Camp Season Three
Episode 11: Failure – Carotid Body Tumor
Episode 10: Residual – Recurrent Cavernous Malformation
Episode 9: Teaching Mission – Lessons From a PCoA Aneurysm
Episode 8: Trust – Intramedullary Cavernous Malformation
Episode 7: Alone – Intraoperative Rupture of AChA Aneurysm with Compacted Coils
Episode 6: Learning to Fly – Excision of PICA Aneurysm with V4 Reimplantation
Episode 5: Slow – Spetzler Martin Grade IV AVM of the Temporal, Parietal, and Occipital Lobes
Episode 4: Uh Oh – Safe Entry Zones for Lesions of the Brainstem
Michael T. Lawton, MD Interviews Special Guest Daniel L. Barrow, MD
Episode 3: Facing Fear as a Neurosurgeon – Carotid Cave Aneurysm
Episode 2: Beginning to Climb – Giant Basilar Tip Aneurysm Clipping
Episode 1: First Case – Large Ophthalmic Artery Aneurysm Clipping with Suction Decompression
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From the Office of the President and CEO
Brain surgery is the ultimate contact sport. The cases are intense, the stakes could not be higher, and performance determines outcomes. There are clutch plays and errors, victories and defeats, disappointments and thrills. Like becoming a better athlete, becoming a better surgeon requires commitment, hard work, and practice. And like athletes, we need to study our performance. Did I make the right read? Did I respond with the right move? What mistakes did I make that I can correct the next time? This is how we chase perfection.
Vince Lombardi once said, “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”
One of our Barrow traditions is to come together at the end of the day and reflect on what we just learned, in that difficult morning aneurysm or in that afternoon approach to a cavernous malformation. There is a pearl to be extracted from every case, and we find it in our “game tape.” We study the game tape in our teaching rounds, which makes them a crucible of neurosurgical training. I like to think of them as Barrow Base Camp – where we huddle after climbing the mountain to rest, recover, gather information, and share stories. And importantly, this ritual is how we chase perfection and better ourselves for the next attempt to summit that mountain of technical excellence.
Now we welcome you to join us. Follow me on Twitter @mtlawton for our episodes.
Michael T. Lawton, MD
President and CEO
Barrow Neurological Institute
Season Two
Behind the Scenes: Dr. Spetzler on the Importance of Daily Neurosurgery Teaching Rounds
Behind the Scenes: Dr. Spetzler Reflects on His Leadership Transition to Dr. Lawton
Episode 17: The Torch – Giant Dolichoectatic Basilar Apex Aneurysm – with Special Guest Robert F. Spetzler, MD
Episode 16: Last Resort – De Novo Vertebral Artery Aneurysm – with Special Guest Robert F. Spetzler, MD
Episode 15: Roads to Rome – Thalamic Cavernous Malformation – with Special Guest Robert F. Spetzler, MD
Episode 14: Punched – Ruptured PCA Aneurysm
Base Camp Season Two Wrap Up Trailer
Episode 13 Part 2: Giants of Spine Surgery – Cervical Deformity
Episode 13 Part 1: Giants of Spine Surgery – Craniocervical Junction Surgery
Episode 12: Calcified Thoracic Disc: The Most Complex Pathology for Spine Surgeons
Episode 11: Intuition – Facial Nerve Microvascular Decompression
Episode 10: Flip – Brainstem Cavernous Malformation
Episode 9: Escalate – Clip Reconstruction to Bypass Procedure
Episode 8: Waiting for the Big Shark to Show Up – Sacral Schwannoma
Episode 7: Don't Hunt a Quail with a Bazooka – Sacral Tumor
Episode 6: Capitalize – Basal Ganglia AVM
Episode 5: Simplify – MCA Aneurysm & Bypass
Episode 4: Push – Brainstem Cavernous Malformation
Episode 3: Performance – Pontomesencephalic Cavernous Malformation
Episode 2: Perfect – Pontomedullary & Cerebellar Cavernous Malformation
Episode 1: Hope – High Cervical Spinal Cord AVM
Base Camp Season Two Trailer
Season One
Barrow Neurosurgery Base Camp: Episode One
Barrow Neurosurgery Base Camp Episode 2: Optic Nerve Sheath Meningioma
Barrow Neurosurgery Base Camp Episode 3: Thoracic Spinal Schwannoma
Episode 4: Clipping of Anterior Communicating and Right Middle Cerebral Artery Aneurysms
Episode 5: Large Anterior Communicating Artery Aneurysm Clipping
Episode 6: Residual Thalamic Cavernous Malformation
Episode 7: Clipping of a Classic Posterior Communicating Artery Aneurysm
Episode 8: Recurrent Trifurcated MCA Aneurysm
Episode 9: Fourth Ventricle Cavernous Malformation
Episode 10: Spinal Dural Arteriovenous Fistula
Episode 11: Recurrent T10 Spinal Cavernous Malformation
Episode 12 Part 1: Giant Anterior Communicating Artery Aneurysm with A3-A3 Bypass
Episode 12 Part 2: Giant Anterior Communicating Artery Aneurysm with A3-A3 Bypass
Episode 13: Internal Carotid Artery (ICA) Terminus Aneurysm
Episode 14: Clipping of a Ruptured Posterior Communicating Artery Aneurysm
Episode 15 Part 1: Ophthalmic Artery Aneurysm
Episode 15 Part 2: Ophthalmic Artery Aneurysm
