Brain Edema XVI

Brain Edema and Anesthesia.- Clinical Management of brain edema.- Neural ICU and edema management updates.- Preconditioning symposium for edema and cellular injury.- Microglia in edema and cell death.- Opioid receptor and brain injury.- Energy metabolism after brain injury.- Metal ion in brain edema and tissue injury.- Vascular biology of brain edema.- Brain edema in pediatric neurological disorders.- Hemorrhage or stroke edema section.- CNS trauma section.- Neuroimaging of brain edema: advances and biomarkers.- Neurobehavioral testing for brain edema assessment.- Brain edema and cellular treatment.- HBO, NBO and other medical gas for edema and tissue protection.- New treatments and/or technologies for edema and cell death.

Richard L. Applegate, II, is Professor, Vice Chair and Director of Anesthesiology Research in the Department of Anesthesiology, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, California, USA. His current research interests span basic science and clinical medicine and include: cardiovascular physiology; control of circulation; outcome impact of physiologic monitoring during and after high-risk surgery or in high-risk patients; methods to improve outcome following surgical brain injury, stroke, hypoxia-ischemia and cardiac arrest; and methods to mitigate vasovagal syncope. Dr. Applegate is the author of 39 journal publications and many book chapters. He is Section Editor (Anesthetic Gases) for Medical Gas Research and an ad hoc reviewer for a number of other journals.

Gang Chen is Associate Chief Neurosurgeon in the Department of Neurosurgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou City, Jiangsu, China. He has long been involved in research into subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and has presented an innovative therapeutic principle of "timely and appropriate policy", with targeting of oxidative stress in early brain injury (early phase), immuno-inflammatory responses in cerebral vasospasm (middle phase), and synapse protection in cognitive dysfunction based on anti-inflammation and anti-oxidation treatment (late phase). As first or corresponding author, Dr. Chen has published 33 articles in leading journals. He has won provincial and ministerial level scientific and technological progress awards three times and holds three national invention patents. He hopes to create more precise neuroprotective drugs for SAH.

Hua Feng is a neurosurgical professor, doctoral supervisor and chief physician who, since 1999, has been Director of the Department of Neurosurgery, Southwest Hospital of the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Toronto, Canada. His major research interests include cure and