Degree: Medical (Universidad del Salvador) Languages: English and French  

Specialties: Intensive Care, Internal Medicine, Neumonology  

Physician Accredited in Sleep Medicine by the Argentine Association of Sleep Medicine AAMS  

Current events in scientific societies 

• Argentine Association of Respiratory Medicine AAMR 

Former coordinator and current participant in the oxygen, sleep and ventilatory support section 

• Argentine Association of Sleep Medicine 

              Founding member of the accreditation section in Sleep Medicine 

             Member of the current board of directors. Account Auditor 

•  Latin American Thoracic Association ALAT 

Head of the Sleep Department 

• European Respiratory Society ERS 

             Assembly 4 Sleep. Participant in Long Term Planning Committee LTPC 

Specialty Work  

• Currently: Medical Director at CESyR Center for Sleep and Breathing Studies from 2004 to the present. We perform studies in our sleep and outpatient laboratory, polysomnography, polygraphs, pressure titration and CPAP adherence school, BIPAP, non-invasive mechanical ventilation NIV. 

• Currently: Head of the Sleep and Mechanical Ventilation Unit. Hospital Cosme Argerich GCBA from September 2003 to the present.  

• Since 2020, coordinating an exclusive intermediate respiratory care unit for the COVID-19 pandemic at the Cosme Argerich GCBA Hospital 

• Former doctor of the intensive care service Sanatorio Otamendi CABA (1999-2006)  

• Former Head of the Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation Unit. Rehabilitation Center  

Respiratory and Motor. ALCLA-Fundalc Clinic (2002-2017)  

Residency: Intensive Care Cosme Argerich GCBA Hospital (1994-1999)  

Chief and Resident Instructor (1999-2001)  

Biennial AMA Internal Medicine Specialist Course  

Specialist career: Pulmonology with resident regime. UBA Hospital Tornú GCBA (2001-2006)  

Rotations: Home mechanical ventilation and sleep disorders  

1. Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona Spain: Intensive Care Unit. May to July 1998. Dr. Jordi Mancebo  

1. Enrique Tornu Hospital. Sleep and mechanical ventilation unit. November 2000 to October 2002. Dr. Claudio Rabec 

1. University Hospital of Álava, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain: Sleep and mechanical ventilation unit. July to December 2004 Dr. Joaquín Duran-Cantolla  

1. Juan P. Garrahan National Hospital of Pediatrics, CABA. Sleep and mechanical ventilation unit. May-July 2006 Dr. Vivian Leske  

Postgraduate teaching activity  

• Coordinating teacher. Mechanical ventilation module in the career of specialists in intensive care and critical medicine.  Argentine Medical Association AMA (From 2005 to the present)  

• Former director and president of the scientific committee of the International Course-Workshop on Sleep-Disordered Breathing and NIV (9 annual editions) Sleep, Oxygen Therapy and NIV Section. Argentine Association of Respiratory Medicine AAMR   

• Coordinator of the Sleep Medicine and Non-Invasive Mechanical Ventilation Section.  

Argentine Association of Respiratory Medicine AAMR (2016-2018)  

• Member of the accreditation committee in sleep medicine. Argentine Association of Sleep Medicine AAMS (2018-2019)  

• Professor in the Diploma of Sleep Medicine at the Universidad Austral.   

Medical publications in the specialty (Textbook and national consensus guidelines)  

• Critical Pulmonology. Arata, A and Franceschini, C 1998  

• Respiratory Physiology 1st edition. Ediciones Corrales 2000. Arata, A and Franceschini, C.   

• Manual ventilate better. Argentine Medical Association AMA. Ventilar Mejor Course 2005. Franceschini, C and Arata, A.  

• Mechanical Ventilation 1st edition. Journal Editions 2008 Arata, A and Franceschini, C.  

• Mechanical Ventilation 2nd edition. Journal Editions 2015 Arata, A and Franceschini, C.  

• Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Non-Invasive Mechanical Ventilation 1st edition. Journal Editions 2015 Franceschini, C and Rabec, C.  

• Two-year follow-up of bariatric surgery for the decrease in sleep AHI. American Journal of Respiratory Medicine RAMR 2014 

• Recommendation guidelines in diagnosis and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome AAMR 2018. Telemedicine and Auto CPAP Chapter Author Scientific Committee Reviewer American Journal of Respiratory Medicine RAMR 2018 

• Recommendation Guidelines in Ambulatory Oxygen Therapy 2017 AAMR. Author of the chapter on oxygen gas therapy at home. Scientific committee reviewer. American Journal of Respiratory Medicine RAMR 2017 

• Telemonitoring and adherence to the use of CPAP in moderate and severe obstructive apnea. American Journal of Respiratory Medicine RAMR 2018 

• Cost-effectiveness analysis of telemonitoring and adherence to the use of CPAP in moderate and severe obstructive apnea. RESPIRAR Journal of the Latin American Thoracic Association Nov 2020 

• Predictors of CPAP discontinuation in patients with bariatric surgery, two-year follow-up after surgery. RAMR 2017 

• Guidelines for recommending diagnosis and treatment in mechanical ventilation at home. AAMR 2021. American Journal of Respiratory Medicine RAMR 2021. Author of the chapter on non-invasive mechanical ventilation in obesity-associated hypoventilation syndrome. Coordinator and reviewer of the guidelines at the national level.   

• Recommendations for the Non-Invasive and Invasive Management of Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure de Novo Covid-19. American Journal of Respiratory Medicine RAMR 2020 

• Recommendations for sleep laboratories during the Coronavirus pandemic. American Journal of Respiratory Medicine RAMR 2020 

• Recommendations for the use and care of CPAP and BiPAP positive pressure devices in VMD home mechanical ventilation for patients and caregivers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Franceschini C et al. 

• Recommendations for respiratory sleep assessment and management of obese patients who are candidates for bariatric surgery. American Journal of Respiratory Medicine RAMR 2021 

• Telemedicine in sleep-related breathing disorders and treatment with positive airway pressure devices. Learnings from SARS-CoV-2 pandemic times. Sleep Science 2021 Franceschini C et al. 

• International consensus document DIC on obstructive sleep apnea OSA. SEPAR-ALAT-French Sleep Society, Portuguese Sleep Society, Brazilian Sleep Society. Arch de Bronconeumol March 2021 www.archbronconeumol.org 

• Two-year follow-up of bariatric surgery for the decrease in sleep AHI. American Journal of Respiratory Medicine RAMR 2014 

• Predictive indexes in prolonged weaning of mechanical ventilation due to tracheostomy in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia. European Respiratory Society. Barcelona September 2022. European Respiratory Journal September 2022. Vol 60 Supplement 66 

• Long- Term Telemonitoring in Sleep Related Breathing Disorders. Clinical Cases in Sleep Physical Therapy. Chapter 31 pages 287-300. Springer Link. November 2