See also:
Preoperative Guidelines
Anaesthesia for children
Thrombo-prophylaxis guidelines

Anaesthetics

Hillingdon Hospital: Main building
Telephone: 01895 279238

The Anaesthetics Department is based at Hillingdon Hospital with services also at Mount Vernon Hospital. It consists of 18 Consultant Anaesthetists, 2 Associate Specialists, 6 Speciality Doctors, 4 Clinical Fellows, 1 Trust Grade and 20 anaesthetists in training. Apart from providing anaesthesia for a variety of surgical procedures, anaesthetists are also involved in the provision of several other services across the Trust. We promote and disseminates patient leaflets on many aspects of anaesthesia and pain management.

Our services are:

Acute Pain Service

All patients who have undergone a major operation are visited by one of the nurse specialists to ensure that the patients have adequate pain relief, achieved through a variety of techniques such as 'epidural', 'PCA' and 'nerve blocks' apart from the well known methods of tablets and intramuscular injections.

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Critical Care Services

The critical care services encompass the Intensive Care Unit and the High Dependency Unit. A team of consultant anaesthetists and highly skilled trainee anaesthetists are responsible for the day-to-day care, treatment and support of critically ill patients requiring advanced cardiovascular, respiratory and renal support. They are also involved in the resuscitation and transfer of critically ill patients within and between hospitals. The service accepts patients referred by other specialist departments who cannot be managed on ordinary wards.

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