Oxford Textbook of Neurocritical Care

Martin Smith MBBS, FRCA, FFICM is honorary professor at University College London and emeritus consultant in neuroanesthesia and neurocritical care at University College London Hospitals. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology. Martin Smith is Past President of the Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Past President of the Neuroanaesthesia and Critical Care Society of Great Britain & Ireland. His research interests include monitoring and managing the injured brain. Dr Smith has published extensively on topics related to neurocritical care and brain injury -

Giuseppe Citerio, MD, is professor of Anesthesia and Intensive Care at the Milano Bicocca University, School of Medicine and Surgery. He is Director of the Neuroscience Department and Director of Anesthesia and Neurosurgical Intensive Care at IRCCS San Gerardo Hospital, Monza. Guiseppe is an Editor-in-Chief of Intensive Care Medicine since 2019 , he has published over 550 indexed articles and his research activities focused on traumatic brain injury, subarachnoid hemorrhage, coma, neuroanesthesia, neurointensive care, and brain death/organ donation.

W Andrew Kofke completed his anesthesiology residency and critical care fellowship training at Mass General, USA. He had faculty positions at Hershey Medical Center (83-88), University of Pittsburgh (88-96), West Virginia University (96-00), and UPenn (00-24). He is director of neuroanesthesia at all three institutions and initiated the founding of a neuro ICU at the University of Pittsburgh and the neurocritical program at UPenn. He has published research related to brain energy metabolism, CBF assessment and monitoring, multimodality neuromonitoring, and opioid neurotoxicity.

Geert Meyfroidt MD, PhD is professor of medicine at the University of Leuven and Consultant Intensivist at the University Hospitals Leuven, in Belgium. He is funded by the Flemish Government as a Senior Clinical Investigator. Current research projects include data mining and predictive modelling in neuro-intensive care and acute kidney injury; clinical and laboratory studies on cerebrovascular autoregulation, and; ketamine and brain injury. Dr Meyfroidt is past-president of the Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine, past-chair of the Neuro-Intensive Care section of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, and Section Editor of Intensive Care Medicine.