Alejandro Úbeda Iglesias, MD, PhD, staff physician of Intensive Care Unit of Hospital Punta de Europa in Algeciras (Cádiz, Spain). Scientific activities related with author of numerous chapters, articles and books focus on mechanical ventilation, non invasive mechanical ventilation, postoperative pulmonary complications, associated respiratory technologies, infectious diseases, invasive candidiasis and aspergilosis, acute renal failure and renal replacement techniques.

Acute Lung Injury; Airway Management -Airway Obstruction; ARDS; Asthma; Bronchoscopy; Cardiac Function; Chronic Heart Failure; Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Continuous Positive Airway Pressure-CPAP; Postoperative Critical Care Medicine; Emergency Management; Humidification and mechanical ventilation; Mechanical airway clearance devices; Mechanical Ventilation; Monitoring; Non invasive mechanical ventilation; Obstructive sleep apnea; Postoperative and intraoperative Pulmonary Physiology; Pulmonary Hypertension; Respiration Disorders; Respiratory Mechanics-Respiratory Physiology; Sepsis; Septic Shock; Sleep Disorders; Weaning mechanical ventilation.