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Special Edition with Professor Lichtenstein



Join Professor Lichtenstein talk about POCUS: Learning from the Past and Moving to the Future. 

Dr. Daniel Lichtenstein is medical intensivist, visiting Professor, working since 1989 at François Jardin’s medical I.C.U. Has defined in 1991 critical ultrasound as a holistic whole-body approach. Research mainly focused around lung ultrasound, using simple equipment, defining the BLUE-protocol (acute respiratory failure, FALLS-protocol (role of lung-rockets in circulatory failure), cardiac arrest (SESAME-protocol), various procedures (thoracentesis, subclavian venous line insertions, …). Regular textbooks since 1992 (last and 6th Edition, Lung Ultrasound in the Critically Ill, 2016, Springer), two dozen of original articles (critical, venous and lung ultrasound), 500 conferences, president of CEURF (international training center with personalized training at the bedside).