JAP  Volume 7 Issue 1 The Editorial Board From the Consulting Editor


Prof Baha Al-Shaikh Consulting Editor Welcome to the first Journal of Anaesthesia Practice issue of 2013. This Jan/Feb issue is full of interesting material for everyone. The usual News section is followed by a light hearted paper from Dr Mohammad and colleagues detailing


some mnemonics and acronyms in anaesthesia including a “The 21st century definition of an anaesthetist”. Dr Seetal Patel describes her career journey as a medical trainee and how she is managed to “cross the blood-brain barrier”. Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is becoming more and more popular as an alternative to aortic valve replacement in high risk patients. Dr G Rajendran and Dr S Webb


discuss the peri-operative management of patients with severe aortic stenosis undergoing TAVI. Dr Paremal and colleagues provide a case report of septic pulmonary


embolism following chronic IV drug abuse. Dr Robson et al offer a cautionary note regarding managing patients with splenectomy and describing a clinical case of overwhelming post-splenectomy infection. Drs Packer and Strätling describe the rare hereditary syndrome Andersen-Tawil Syndrome and the challenges faced during anaesthesia. Last but not least, Karim Rizkallah reviews a new book, Tracheotomy Management – A Multidisciplinary Approach. I do hope you enjoy reading this issue of JAP.


Editorial board


Dr Neville Robinson Consultant Anaesthetist Dr Robinson was appointed a consultant in 1987 at Edgware General Hospital, Middlesex. He transferred to Northwick


Park Hospital in 1994 and is the Lead Obstetric Anaesthetist in the North West London Hospitals NHS Trust. He is interested in training the novice


anaesthetist and has written several books.


Dr Cyprian Mendonca Consultant Anaesthetist Dr Mendonca works at University Hospital, Coventry, and is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Warwick


Medical School. He is also an examiner for MRCS at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He has co-authored three books in anaesthesia and editedHandbook of Anaesthesia for Warwick Medical School.


Prof. André van Zundert Professor of Anaesthesiology Prof. van Zundert is a Professor and Programme Director at the


Department of Anesthesiology, ICU & Pain Therapy, Catharina Hospital-Brabant Medical School, Eindhoven, Netherlands. He has published widely with special areas of interest including teaching and education.


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Dr John Whittle Specialist Trainee Dr Whittle is an Anaesthetic Registrar on the Central London Rotation. He is a research fellow at the Centre for


Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at UCL and undertakes basic sciences research at the Wolfson Institute. He teaches on a degree course at UCL and on teaching programmes for junior anaesthetists and medical students.


Dr Maan Hasan Consultant Anaesthetist Dr Hasan is a Consultant Anaesthetist at the University College London Hospitals and is Honorary Consultant


Anaesthetist at North West London Hospitals. He has co-authored six books and is the editor and author of two CD- Rom/DVD software packages. He has had 34 papers and articles published.


Mark Snazelle Consultant Anaesthetist Dr Snazelle qualified with MBChB from the University of Birmingham in 2001. He worked in A&E and General Medicine, obtaining MRCP,


before settling on a career in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine. He is currently a Consultant in anaesthesia


and Intensive Care in William Harvey Hospital, Ashford, Kent.


Dr James Roberts Consultant Anaesthetist Dr Roberts works at The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital and University College London Hospital. He also works as


a Medical Innovator at the Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre at UCL. He was appointed Consultant Anaesthetist in June 2006 at RNTNE and UCLH, and Medical Innovator at CBRC UCL in November 2008.


Dr Simon Stacey Consultant Anaesthetist Dr Stacey was appointed as a Consultant Anaesthetist in 2000 at Barts and the London NHS Trust. He specialises


in Cardiothoracic anaesthesia and ITU at the London Chest Hospital in Bethnal Green. Dr Stacey has a strong educational


interest, co-authoring several books, including Essentials of Anaesthetic Equipment.


Dr James Watts Consultant Anaesthetist Dr Watts is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at the East Lancashire Trust. He acts as an external advisor for


the Health Service Ombudsman and a case examiner for the GMC. His interests include anaesthesia for the elderly patient and for gynaecological/urological cancer surgery. He is the author of a textbook on Safe Sedation.


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