Regional Ventilation/ Perfusion ratio and VILI Lecture

Lecture presented by Dr Antonio Pesenti at the Second Egyptian Italian Critical Care Symposium held at Cairo Egypt .

Professor Antonio Pesenti is Professor of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Milan, Italy.
He achieved his medical qualification and board certificate in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine from the University of Milan, cum laude.
After two years (1977-1979) spent as a Visiting Fellow at the NIH (USA) in the Section of Cardiac and Pulmonary Assist Devices, under the direction of Professor T. Kolobow, he came back to Italy subsequently becoming Assistant Professor.
He is the author and/or editor of numerous textbooks and of more than 400 published scientific and educational articles. He is one of the most distinguished researchers in the field of respiratory failure, mechanical ventilation and extra corporeal membrane oxygenation.

His research has always been focused on understanding the pulmonary physiology and management of acute respiratory failure, with an emphasis on mechanical ventilation, ARDS imaging and ECMO.