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Antonio Artigas Raventos

Antonio Artigas is a Professor of Applied Physiology and Chair of Sepsis and Acute Respiratory Failure Research at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He was the Director of the Intensive Care Medicine Department at Corporacion Sanitaria Universitaria Parc Tauli 1988-2016 and now Emeritus Director and Director of the Pathophysiological Translational and Cell Therapy Laboratory.

He completed his training in Barcelona University and became MD in 1973 and PhD in 1992. He was certified in internal medicine in 1976 and intensive care medicine in 1982. He is a member of several societies such as ESA, ESCIM, ATS, SRLF (for which he was the vice president from 1991 – 1993), CIBER and chairman to the ERS critical care group and HERMES respiratory critical care program.

He is an honorary member of the European Society of Intensive Care and member of the Advisory Committee of Sepsis of the Government in Catalonia. Prof. Artigas is International Corresponding Member of Académie Nationale de Médicine since 2016. He is on the editorial boards of critical care and respiratory journals.

He received 50 awards such as Educational Award of the European Respiratory Society in 2015 and more than 30 research grants funded by the Spanish Research Agency and EU research programs.

Fluid resuscitation and hemodynamic support in sepsis and ARDS

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