Luciano Gattinoni

LUCIANO GATTINONI Current position: Guest Professor Anaesthesia and Intensive Care University of Göttingen - Germany Born January 12, 1945. He introduced the concept of lung rest by extracorporeal CO2 removal in acute respiratory failure and he worked on the quantitative analysis of thoracic CT, which culminated in the "baby lung", lung recruitability, and Mechanical Power concepts. Emeritus Professor at the University of Milan since 2017. He is currently working as Guest Professor at the University of Göttingen (Germany). His research is focused on the pathophysiology and treatment of acute respiratory failure, including prone positioning, sepsis and acid base disorders. He has published more than 500 research articles and reviews in peer reviewed journals (h-index: 100, citations: 47,626, source: Scopus October 2023). He held more than 1000 lectures worldwide. He served as President of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (1988-1990), President of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care medicine (1997-2000), President of the Italian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Reanimation and Intensive Care (2006-2009).