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The department provides anaesthetic services for large university teaching hospital and tertiary referral centre including preoperative assessment, anaesthesia, critical care and pain relief.
We are a team of 67 consultants, 14 core trainees, 20 specialist trainees, and 2 physician’s assistants in anaesthesia, supported by a great team of nurses, health care assistants, operating department practitioners, and porters.
We maintain close links with the University of Liverpool and are committed to undergraduate and postgraduate training.
At the Royal Liverpool University Hospital site, there are twelve theatres providing breast and endocrine, emergency, urology, vascular, trauma, spinal, renal transplant and general surgical theatres. The region's major vascular surgical inpatient unit (Liverpool Vascular and Endovascular Services = LIVES), a large centre for complex endovascular surgery, is located at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. A new state-of-the art vascular hybrid theatre has opened in 2016. There are eight theatres on the Broadgreen Hospital site where elective orthopaedic, elective urology and day case general surgical procedures are performed in the diagnostic and treatment centre, opened summer 2006. Our urological surgeons use a DaVinci robot. We have established a strong partnership with the Liverpool Women’s Hospital; several consultant anaesthetists work between the two Trusts in close collaboration.
In addition, the anaesthetic department provides services to the Liverpool Dental Hospital for chair, day case and sedation sessions. The Ophthalmology Unit of St Paul's is a tertiary referral centre for vitreo-retinal surgery and ocular oncology, and is a separate 4-theatre complex within the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. Increasingly, we also care for patients undergoing procedures in interventional radiology.
On this background we regularly treat complex high-risk surgical patients. We have implemented a robust system for preoperative assessment and risk stratification. Several consultant anaesthetists provide clinics for anaesthetic assessment. We contribute to decision-making at multidisciplinary team meetings and have developed a network across specialties to deliver integrated perioperative medicine. Our research portfolio reflects this with emphasis on outcome-orientated clinical studies.
We have substantial expertise in massive transfusion and intraoperative cell salvage, and we use point-of-care testing for haemostatic management. The department has a special interest in management of the difficult airway; fibreoptic intubation techniques are used on a regular basis. In line with that we organise and provide an annual regional airway management workshop for trainee anaesthetists. Regional anaesthesia plays a large role in our department and ultrasound-guided techniques are frequently used. We are a recognised centre for advanced training in regional anaesthesia.
Tracy Rawlings, Directorate Manager
Susan Travis, Matron
Oliver Zuzan, Clinical Director
Dr E Allsop
Dr N Airey
Dr J Appiah-Ankam
Dr A Axon
Dr A Banerjee
Dr J Beattie
Dr A Bonnett
Dr C Brearton
Dr C Chevannes
Dr L Cloherty
Dr M Crews
Dr L Dagg
Dr N Daniel
Dr M Davies
Dr P Delve
Dr M Diwan
Dr E Djabatey
Dr R Dodd
Dr T Donnelly
Dr L Fahy
Dr L Flockton
Dr O Fredy
Dr G George
Dr M Goulden
Dr C Grassmann
Dr A Hall
Dr P Hampshire
Dr S Hargreaves
Dr A Houston
Dr A Iyer
Dr A G Jones
Dr A Leach
Dr M. Karvelis
Dr J Ledson
Professor M Leuwer
Dr R Malhotra
Dr G Masterson
Dr F Mateu Lead
Dr L McCrossan
Dr H McNamara
Dr S Mitchell
Dr B V S Murthy
Dr V Packham
Dr B Pandit
Dr R Parikh
Dr D Patrick
Dr L Poole
Dr R Ramsaran
Dr D Ranasinghe
Dr S Rastopyrov
Dr S Rogers
Dr A Roitberg-Henry
Dr H Romer
Dr A Rushton
Dr M Safar
Dr T Sajjad
Dr D Sethuraman
Dr G Sidaras
Dr S Singh
Dr M Smith
Dr S Swaraj
Dr H Tsang
Dr J Walker
Dr C Williams
Dr R Wingate
Dr D Yeo
Dr O Zuzan
Anaesthetic office 0151 706 2430
Preoperative assessment 0151 706 1901
Pain team 0151 706 3190
Postoperative critical care unit 0151 706 2888
11th Floor
Royal Liverpool University Hospital
Prescot Street
Liverpool
L7 8XP