Intensive Care Network Podcasts

In this NeuroResus episode, Oli Flower speaks with Keryn Davidson, vascular neurosurgeon at Royal North Shore Hospital, about aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage, open cerebrovascular surgery, ICU-neurosurgery collaboration, and why the bedside exam still matters in an era obsessed with scans, monitors, and numbers. Keryn trained across Queensland and New South Wales before completing fellowship training at Royal North Shore with a focus on open cerebrovascular surgery. She is the first female neurosurgeon in the department's history, a fellowship examiner with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and will be contributing to ISAH2026 in Sydney. The big theme: look at the patient, not just the numbers A recurring message throughout the conversation was deceptively simple: focus on the patient. In subarachnoid haemorrhage, teams can become fixated on ICP, arterial pressure, imaging, protocols, and monitors. Those things matter, obviously, because medicine has apparently decided numbers are comforting. Bu