Daniel A Lichtenstein

Biography:

Daniel Lichtenstein is medical intensivist, Ambroise-Paré Hospital (Paris). Defined critical ultrasound since 1985 (Intensive Care Med 1991;19:353-355) describing diagnoses, immediate therapies, procedures (venous canulation, thoracentesis...) in a holistic approach, favoring simple equipment, one universal probe for whole body, emphasis on lung, simple cardiac sonography (and others), extrapolable to multiple disciplines (pediatry, pulmonology...), settings (ICU, austere areas...), patients (from bariatric to neonates). One textbook (1992, 2002, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2016 editions, Springer-Verlag), original articles including: BLUE-protocol (acute respiratory failure), FALLS-protocol (lung ultrasound in circulatory failure), SESAME-protocol (cardiac arrest), lung ultrasound in neonates. President of CEURF (training center at bedside in I.C.U.).