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Anesthesiology, anaesthesiology, anaesthesia or anaesthetics is the medical specialty concerned with the total perioperative care of patients before, during and after surgery. It encompasses anesthesia, intensive care medicine, critical emergency medicine, and pain medicine. A physician specialized in this field of medicine is called an anesthesiologist, anaesthesiologist or anaesthetist, depending on the country.
The Association of Anaesthetists, in full the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI), is a professional association for anaesthetists in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
The Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA) is the professional body responsible for the specialty of anaesthesia throughout the United Kingdom. It sets standards in anaesthesia, critical care, pain management, and for the training of anaesthetists, physicians' assistants (anaesthesia), and practising critical care physicians. It also holds examinations for anaesthetists in training, publishes the British Journal of Anaesthesia, and informs and educates the public about anaesthesia. Its headquarters is in Churchill House, London.
Katharine Georgina Lloyd-Williams was a British anaesthetist, general practitioner and medical educator. She was a consultant anaesthetist at the Royal Free Hospital from 1934 and dean of the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine from 1945, retiring from both posts in 1962.
Michael Rosen was the president of the Royal College of Anaesthetists from 1988 to 1991.
Liam Brennan is a consultant anaesthetist, deputy medical director of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and chair of the Centre for Perioperative Care. He was formerly president of the Royal College of Anaesthetists from 2015 to 2018. He specialises in anaesthesia in children and those with difficult airways and in plastic surgery. As vice chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, he has a significant role in quality improvement and Brexit issues. Brennan has in addition been editor of the British Journal of Anaesthesia.
Alastair Andrew Spence was president of the Royal College of Anaesthetists for 1991 to 1994.
Leo Strunin was president of the Royal College of Anaesthetists from 1997 to 2000.
Judith Hulf was president of the Royal College of Anaesthetists from 2006 to 2009.
Peter Nightingale was president of the Royal College of Anaesthetists from 2009 to 2012.
Jean-Pierre van Besouw was president of the Royal College of Anaesthetists from 2012 to 2015.
Archibald D. Marston (1891–1962) CBE was a British medical man. He was the first dean of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, serving from 1948 to 1952.
Bernard Richard Millar Johnson FRCS was the dean of the Royal College of Anaesthetists from 1952 to 1955.
Frankis Tilney Evans FRCS was the dean of the Royal College of Anaesthetists from 1955 to 1958.
Sir Geoffrey Stephen William Organe FRCS was an English anaesthetist and the dean of the Royal College of Anaesthetists from 1958 to 1961.
William Woolf Mushin FRCS 1966, CBE 1971 was Director and Professor of Anaesthetics Welsh National School of Medicine, University of Wales, 1947 to 1975. He was also the dean of the Royal College of Anaesthetists from 1961 to 1964.
John Edmund Riding (1924-2018) was a British anaesthetist who served as the dean of the Royal College of Anaesthetists from 1976–79. He held a consultant appointment to the Royal Liverpool Hospital.
Sir Donald Campbell was a Scottish anaesthetist and the dean of the Royal College of Anaesthetists from 1982–85.
Professor Ravi Mahajan FRCA of the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, is president of the Royal College of Anaesthetists from September 2018.
John Gillies, was a Scottish anaesthetist, who worked at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE). For gallantry as a serving soldier in WWI he was awarded the Military Cross. He founded the department of anaesthetics in the RIE and became its first director. The Gillies anaesthetic machine which he devised was the first British closed circuit anaesthetic device and was in use until the 1960s. With his colleague HWC ('Griff') Griffiths he pioneered the technique of high spinal anaesthesia to produce hypotension and 'bloodless' operating fields. Gillies anaesthetised King George VI in Buckingham Palace and was made Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) for this service. He was president of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland from 1947 to 1950.
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- ↑ Past Deans and Presidents. Archived 2018-06-12 at the Wayback Machine Royal College of Anaesthetists. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
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