Call for papers - Challenges in neurocritical care

Guest Editors

Elisa Gouvea Bogossian, MD, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Swarna Rajagopalan, MD, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, USA

Submission Status: Open | Submission Deadline: 1 August 2025

BMC Neurology is calling for submissions to a new Collection on challenges in neurocritical care, focusing on conditions such as traumatic brain injury, acute ischemic stroke, non-traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage, intracranial hemorrhage, and status epilepticus. We welcome submissions that explore new challenges in neurocritical care, innovative neuromonitoring techniques, neuroprotection strategies, and intensive care management approaches, aimed at enhancing patient outcomes and informing best practices.

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Meet the Guest Editors

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Elisa Gouvea Bogossian, MD, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Dr Elisa Gouvêa Bogossian, MD, PhD, is a researcher at the Intensive Care Department of Hôpital Universitaire de Bruxelles, Université Libre de Bruxelles. Her clinical research focuses on acute brain injury patients, particularly subarachnoid hemorrhage and traumatic brain injury. Her work also focuses on brain physiological monitoring to help understand pathophysiological mechanisms of different diseases and how to apply neuromonitoring to improve outcome of these patients.

Swarna Rajagopalan, MD, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, USA

Swarna Rajagopalan, MD, is a neurologist and neurointensivist at Cooper University Healthcare and an Associate Professor of Neurology at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. She did her fellowship in neurocritical care at UPenn, and subsequently completed a master's in translational science and research. Her research interests are focused on neuromonitoring, cerebral autoregulation and prevention of secondary brain injury in neurocritical care patients. She is an ultrasound enthusiast and currently co-chairs the Neurocritical Care Society (NCS) ultrasound section, and is a visual abstract editor for NCS.

About the Collection

BMC Neurology is calling for submissions to a new Collection on challenges in neurocritical care, focusing on conditions such as traumatic brain injury, acute ischemic stroke, non-traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage, intracranial hemorrhage, and status epilepticus. We welcome submissions that explore new challenges in neurocritical care, innovative neuromonitoring techniques, neuroprotection strategies, and intensive care management approaches, aimed at enhancing patient outcomes and informing best practices.

Neurocritical care aims to prevent secondary brain injury—such as cerebral edema, ischemia, increased intracranial pressure and seizures—through specialized intensive care management and advanced neuro-monitoring. Current challenges include timely diagnosis, early identification and treatment of secondary brain injury, neuroprotection, monitoring treatment responses and neuro-prognostication. As the understanding of neurocritical conditions grows, exploring innovative approaches to improve care delivery and patient recovery becomes increasingly important.

Recent advances in this area include the development of novel monitoring techniques, improved neuroprotective strategies, and evidence-based protocols for managing complex cases. These innovations have the potential to transform clinical practice, but ongoing research is essential to refine these approaches and address persistent challenges in the field.

Continued research in neurocritical care may lead to groundbreaking advances in personalized treatment strategies, enhanced monitoring technologies, and improved rehabilitation protocols. As we deepen our understanding of the pathophysiology of neurological injuries and their responses to various interventions, we may uncover new therapeutic targets and optimize existing treatment modalities, ultimately improving patient recovery and effective healthcare delivery.

Topics of interest to this Collection include, but are not limited to:

New challenges in neurocritical care, such as climate health
Novel insights or approaches to existing challenges in neurocritical care
Novel invasive and non-invasive neuromonitoring techniques, or novel applications of existing techniques
Neuroprotective strategies for mitigating secondary brain injury
Personalized treatment approaches based on physiologic considerations, such as cerebral autoregulation, or advanced monitoring data
Strategies for optimizing systemic intensive care management in neurocritical care patients
Innovative rehabilitation strategies

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Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original Research Articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Challenges in neurocritical care" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.