PhD defense by Morten Andresen
Morten Andresen
On January 15th, Morten Andresen successfully defended his PhD thesis with the title “Reliability of intracranial pressure monitoring: Clinical and technical assessment, and evaluation of sources of error.”
The PhD investigated different clinical and technical aspects of ICP monitoring with a focus on the effect of postural changes on ICP in different patient groups. The research was conducted with Professor Marianne Juhler as supervisor.
Opponents on the thesis were
- Professor Steen Hasselbalch,
Department of Neurology,
Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Denmark - Associate Professor Carsten Bjarkam,
Department of Neurosurgery,
Aalborg Hospital, Denmark - Professor Marek Czosnyka,
Brain Physics Lab, Department of Neurosurgery,
Cambridge University, England
Thesis papers
The thesis was based on the following four papers:
I. Andresen M, Juhler M, Munch TN. Quality and Safety of Home ICP Monitoring Compared with In-Hospital Monitoring. Acta Neurochir Suppl. 2012;113:187–91.
II. Andresen M, Juhler M, Thomsen OC. Electrostatic discharges and their effect on the validity of registered values in intracranial pressure monitors. J Neurosurg. 2013 Nov;119(5):1119–24.
III. Andresen M, Juhler M. Intracranial pressure following complete removal of a small demarcated brain tumor: a model for normal intracranial pressure in humans. J Neurosurg. 2014 Oct;121(4):797–801.
IV. Andresen M, Hadi A, Petersen LG, Juhler M. Effect of postural changes on ICP in healthy and ill subjects. Acta Neurochir. 2015 Jan;157(1):109–13.