Jean-Francois Brichant

Department of Anesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liege, Belgium

Diplomate of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Liege (1987); Doctorate of Clinical Sciences (1991); Agrégé de l'Enseignement Supérieur (Habilitation) (2002)
Director of Gynecologic and Obstetric Anesthesia in the Department of Anesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine of the Liege University Hospital (1992-current)

Chairman of the Belgian Society of Anesthesia and Resuscitation of Belgium (2005).
Member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Society of Anesthesiologists.
Past-chairman and member of the Respiration Subcommittee of the European Society of Anesthesiologists.
Member of Obstetric Anaesthesia Subcommittee of the European Society of Anesthesiologists.
Co-founding member and member of the Board of the Belgian Association for Regional Anaesthesia.
Member of the Scientific Committee and member of the Board of the Club d'Anesthésie-Réanimation en Obstétrique.

Research Interests:
Respiratory effects of anesthesia
Obstetric anesthesia, analgesia and intensive care, preeclampsia
Regional anesthesia

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

: Anesthesiology & Pain Management > Obstetrical Anesthesiology (14 November 2005 - 10 September 2008)

Links

http://www.ulg.ac.be/anesrea

All recent recommendations

• 3.0
  Nicardipine in pre-eclamptic patients: placental transfer and disposition in breast milk.
  Recommended by Jean-Francois Brichant
  
• 4.8
  Determination of the full dose-response relation of intrathecal bupivacaine, levobupivacaine, and ropivacaine, combined with sufentanil, for labor analgesia.
  Recommended by Jean-Francois Brichant, Malachy Columb
  
• 6.0
  Incidence of epidural hematoma, infection, and neurologic injury in obstetric patients with epidural analgesia/anesthesia.
  Recommended by Jean-Francois Brichant
  
• 3.0
  Correlation of adverse neurological outcomes with increasing volumes and delayed administration of autologous epidural blood patches for postdural puncture headaches.
  Recommended by Jean-Francois Brichant
  
• 3.0
  Combined spinal-epidural anesthesia for cesarean delivery: dose-dependent effects of hyperbaric bupivacaine on maternal hemodynamics.
  Recommended by Jean-Francois Brichant
  
• 4.8
  Early versus late initiation of epidural analgesia in labor: does it increase the risk of cesarean section? A randomized trial.
  Recommended by Ruth Landau, Jean-Francois Brichant
  
• 3.0
  Obese parturients have lower epidural local anaesthetic requirements for analgesia in labour.
  Recommended by Jean-Francois Brichant