I am an Associate Professor in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, SS. Annunziata Hospital, Gabriele dAnnunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. I obtained my Medical Doctor degree (cum laude) in 1993 and the Graduation Diploma in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (cum laude) in 1998, both from the University of Bari, Italy. After my residency, I undertook a research fellowship and in 2003 I obtained a PhD in Respiratory Physiology (cum laude) at the Paris XII University. In 2002, I started to work as a senior physician in the General ICU of the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital in Rome. On February 2006, I was appointed as Assistant Professor of Anaesthesiolog...