Clinical Neurorespiratory Medicine

Dr. med. Martin Groß is a German neurologist with specialization in critical care, palliative care, emergency and sleep medicine. In different hospitals he treated neurological patients of all ages with impaired respiration, cough and swallowing in an in- and outpatient setting, and he built up specialized healthcare structures providing weaning, rehabilitation, and long-term care for those patients. He is President elect of the German Society for Out-of-Hospital Ventilation (DIGAB), deputy spokesperson of the Neuromuscular Center Northwest, member of the certification commission of the German Society for Neurorehabilitation (DGNR), and honorary member of the German Society for Respiratory Therapy (DGA). His scientific interests are disorders of respiratory regulation and cough, and healthcare supply research. He authored, co-authored and edited various peer reviewed articles, practice guidelines and books, among which the German reference book on Neurorespiratory Medicine. Eelco F.M. Wijdicks MD, PhD is Professor of Neurology, College of Medicine and Science, Mayo Clinic. In 1992 he established the Mayo Clinic Neurocritical Care Program. He is an attending neurointensivist in the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit at Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus in Rochester MN. He was the founding editor of the journal Neurocritical Care, the official journal of the Neurocritical Care Society. He originated the FOUR SCORE coma scale. He has been named Honorary Member of the Neurocritical Care Society. He received the Dutch Winkler medal. Mayo Clinic has honored him with the Karis Award and Distinguished Educator Award. He is also a Professor of the History of Medicine, College of Medicine and Science, Mayo Clinic, and former president of the International Society of the History of Neurosciences. He has approximately 1000 peer reviewed research papers, practice guidelines, topic reviews, book chapters and editorials to his credit. He has single-authored, co-authored, and edited over 35 books on Neurocritical Care with multiple later editions. Additionally, he authored a trilogy on the portrayal of medicine, neurology, and neuropsychiatry in cinema throughout history. He lives with his wife Barbara-Jane in Rochester (MN) and Bonita Springs (FL). Maxwell Damian is an Australian born Neurologist and Clinical Neurophysiologist who specialises in neurocritical care and neuromuscular disease. He trained in Germany and the UK, where he was Consultant in Neurology at Cambridge University Hospitals until retirement from the NHS. Since then he has worked part time in neurocritical care of cardiac and neuromuscular disease and remains active in teaching and research. He has authored numerous original papers, and co-authored and edited several textbooks in these areas. He was chair of the Neurocritical Care section of the European Academy of Neurology and is a Fellow of the Neurocritical Care Society, USA and of the European Acadamy of Neurology. PD Dr. med. habil. Oliver Summ is head of the department of Neurointensive Care and Rehabilitation at the Protestant Hospital in Oldenburg. He received his MD and completed his residency in neurology at the Department of Neurology at the University of Muenster. As a post doctoral fellow he worked at the University of California San Francisco at the headache research laboratory. He is also board certified in intensive care, pain medicine, and palliative care. Oliver Summ`s research interests are neurointensive care, central respiratory regulation, as well as headache. He serves as head of neurointesinve care and rehabilitation, as a consultant for the headache clinic and as a lecturer in Neurology at the University of Oldenburg.

1. A historical account of the neurology of breathing Eelco F. M. Wijdicks; 2. Neurorespiratory medicine: scope of the problem Martin Groß and Tobias Schmidt-Wilcke; 3. Anatomy and physiology of the lower airways and the lungs Markus Körner; 4. Respiratory regulation Martin Groß, Eelco F.M. Wijdicks, Nahid Hassanpour; 5. The respiratory muscle pump and respiratory mechanics Maxwell S. Damian and Eelco F. M. Wijdicks; 6. Sleep and respiration Martin Groß, David Gatfield, Raphael Heinzer and Nahid Hassanpour; 7. Neurogenic dysphagia Rainer Dziewas and Tobias Warnecke; 8. Neurorespiratory diagnostics Stephan Wenninger; 9. Principles of mechanical ventilation and respiratory support Dominic Dellweg and Robin Schlott; 10. Management of secretions and augmentation of cough in diseases of the nervous system and the muscles John R. Bach, David Troxell, Martin Groß and Jon Nilsestuen; 11. Continuous noninvasive ventilatory support and mechanical insufflation-exsufflation for long-term management, extubation, and decannulation of patients with ventilatory pump failure John R. Bach, Kevin Huang and Yuka Ishikawa; 12. Tracheostomy and tracheal cannulas in neurologic disease Janina Runkel and Teresa Grimm; 13. Critical decisions in ventilation with acute neurologic injury Eelco F. M. Wijdicks; 14. Weaning of neurological patients from long-term ventilation and home mechanical ventilation Jens D. Rollnik; 15. Rehabilitation of mechanically ventilated neurological patients Marcus Pohl and Tobias Schmidt-Wilcke; 16. Respiration in brain hemisphere and brainstem lesions Mathieu van der Jagt, Leo Heunks and Martin Groß; 17. Spinal cord lesions affecting respiration Alexandru Budu, Sven Hirschfeld and Stasa Tumpa; 18. Neuromuscular diseases Stephan Wenninger, Susana Quijano Roy and Maxwell Damian; 19. Sleep disordered breathing Thomas Gossard and Erik K. St. Louis; 20. Respiratory issues in children with neurological disorders Samiran Ray, Lisa Edel and Elaine Chan; 21. Respiratory therapy Donatha Hornemann, Martin Groß and Regina Lomako; 22. Quality of life in mechanically ventilated patients Dorothée E. Lulé and Albert C. Ludolph; 23. The caregivers Victoria Kuhna; 24. Palliative care Stefan Lorenzl, Martin Groß and Eelco Wijdicks; 25. Organisational settings of respiratory care throughout the world ―a birds eye view and sample Martin Groß, Donatha Hornemann, Thomas Platz, Peter Wijkstra, Jean-Marc Scheer, Nathalie Scheer-Pfeifer, Michael Baumberger, Luca Brendebach, Peter Gay, Douglas McKim, Oxana Vakulenko, Andrej Lukianov, Regina Lomako, Mohammad Jalili, Hongcai Liu and Garima Aryal.