Johan Undén

Johan Undén is an Associate Professor and Consultant in the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at Lund University. His work primarily focuses on critical care medicine, with particular expertise in cardiac arrest, traumatic brain injury, and neurotrauma.

His research interests span several critical areas in emergency and intensive care medicine:

• Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest and post-resuscitation care (77% of his research fingerprint)
• Traumatic Brain Injury and neurotrauma management (27-39% of his research fingerprint)
• Head trauma in children and diagnostic guidelines
• Spinal cord injury management
• Septic shock and fluid resuscitation protocols

Dr. Undén's recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on clinical guidelines validation, quality of life assessment after critical events, and multicenter clinical trials. His work significantly contributes to the UN Sustainable Development Goals related to good health and well-being.

He actively supervises doctoral students and serves as principal or assistant supervisor on multiple research projects including studies on health-related quality of life after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, clinical investigation of new oral anticoagulants, and clinical aspects of head injury management in children. His work involves extensive collaboration with multiple institutions across the Nordic region.

Dr. Undén is a key contributor to the Scandinavian Neurotrauma Committee and is actively involved in developing and validating clinical guidelines that influence practice across the Nordic countries in emergency and critical care medicine.