Professional Interests

Anaesthesia

I'm a full-time Senior Staff Specialist Anaesthetist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney Australia, specialising in neurosurgical anaesthesia and cerebral monitoring.

My research interest has been cerebral protection and my clinical focus is anaesthesia for cerebello-pontine angle tumors (acoustic neuroma) and other prolonged neurosurgery. This has resulted in a web version of a paper on Context Sensitive Decrement Times

Like any person who has done something for a while, I have developed definite opinions about how to do a good neuro-anaesthetic!

Standards

I've helped develop a number of Australian and international electrical safety standards, including international standards on alarms, monitoring, ventilation and ventilator vocabulary.

The page I made about the IEC 60601-1-18 alarm sounds is no longer hosted at Sydney University, but is available here.

The Internet

I have been deeply involved in the Internet since it began. The Virtual Anaesthesia Textbook was a major project. It is out of date now with many linkgs expired; google kind of makes it irrelevant these days. The preface to the VAT explains how you can get involved.

Equipment

I have a long-term interest in the design of anaesthesia equipment, paricularly human interfaces and ventilation systems for the newer anaesthetic machines.

My lecture notes on anaesthetic equipment include pages about electrical safety, gas supplies, cylinders and pipelines, regulators, gas mixing, breathing systems, suction systems, and vapourisers

I also include notes on monitoring the neuromuscular junction, humidity and humidification, and ventilation.

My interest in information systems and interdevice communication has resulted in pages on Monitor and connecting medical devices to computers.

Other lecture notes

I have accumulated many basic lecture notes and put them on the web, some are a bit historical but a lot still have relevance.

Venomous Creatures

If you are as fascinated by venomous creatures as I am, check out my VAT chapter on poisonings and envenomations or my Australian Envenomation pages..

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