Anaesthetists

All anaesthetic services for London Knee Clinic patients are provided by a highly experienced Consultant Anaesthetists. This includes the administration of general anaesthesia or intravenous sedation, and the use of regional anaesthesia such as epidural injections, spinal injections and nerve blocks.

Our anaesthetists also carry out a pre-operative assessment on every patient requiring an operation, in order to evaluate your fitness for anaesthesia and plan the most appropriate anaesthetic technique. After the operation we follow you closely to ensure that any pain caused by your operation is well controlled. We also make sure that any problems related to the anaesthetic, such as nausea, are dealt with and that you are progressing well with your recovery.

Training as an anaesthetist in the United Kingdom involves the completion of a medical degree (5-6 years) followed by a long period of postgraduate training in several different hospitals and the completion of specialist examinations (another 7-9 years). All Consultant Anaesthetists working with The London Knee Clinic have then gone on to be appointed to Consultant Anaesthetist positions in London NHS hospitals. They are all registered on the Specialist Register for Anaesthetics of the General Medical Council and are all Fellows of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, whose exemplary standards they undertake to uphold. Finally, they are all fully accredited with all the UK health-insurance companies.