Professor Alain Combes
Pitie Salpetriere APHP University Hospital, Paris (France)
Membership:
ESC Professional Member
ACVC Member
Biography
Professor Alain Combes, MD, PhD is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at Sorbonne Université, Paris, and head of the ICU department at La Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, France.
e-Mail: alain.combes@aphp.fr
Main research interests:
- Care of the critically ill cardiac patient (cardiogenic shock, AMI, cardiac arrest, complicated heart surgery and heart transplantation)
- Mechanical circulatory assistance and ECMO
- Rescue therapies for severe respiratory failure, ECMO and ECCO2R
Professor Combes is Member of
- The Société de Réanimation de Langue Française (SRLF)
- The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)
- Editor of Intensive Care Medicine
- The European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
- The Association for Acute CardioVascular Care, ESC-ACVC, Board member of the ESC-ACVC
- The American Thoracic Society (ATS)
- The ExtraCorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO), PastPresident of the EURO-ELSO
- The International ECMO network (ECMONet)
Contributor content
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Refractory cardiac arrest: is extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation the answer?
21 March 2026
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Research methodology course: how to set up and observational study in the field of acute cardiovascular care - Part 2
15 March 2025
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Research methodology course: how to set up and observational study in the field of acute cardiovascular care - Part 3
15 March 2025
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Research methodology course: how to set up an observational study in the field of acute cardiovascular care - Part 1
14 March 2025
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Personalised management of the patient on mechanical circulatory support in the cardiac care unit
1 September 2024
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Great Debates: management of cardiac arrest and cardiogenic shock - how? where? and when?
30 August 2024
