School of Medicine
Research in the Department of Anaesthesiology
As a department we have a diverse research programme. Research conducted in the department ranges from the clinical assessment of novel drugs, through to the use of simulation as a tool for analysing error in anaesthesia. Staff involved in research include clinicians, scientists, research coordinators and postgraduate students.
Some of our research interests / projects:
- Anaesthetists be cleaner (ABC)
- Airway management
- Circadian variation of anaesthetic drug action
- Drosophila, Honey bees and mice as animal models to determine the effect of anaesthesia on the circadian clock
- Clinical implications of fatigue and circadian disruption to clinicians and patients
- EEG effects of anaesthesia and sleep modelling
- Emergency surgical airways
- Human factors
- Improvement of neuro-cognitive outcome after cardiac surgery
- Incident monitoring within anaesthesia
- Mechanisms of anaesthesia
- Medical education in anaesthesiology
- Microbial contamination of IV drugs during their administration in anaesthesia
- Novel ketamine analogues
- Pathophysiology of arterial bubbles
- Pathophysiology and treatment of decompression illness in divers
- Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of analgesic drugs in children and neonates
- Prevention of drug administration error in anaesthesia and simulation as a tool for error research
- Sleep disorders in the New Zealand blind population
- Teamwork in perioperative teams and effect on patient outcomes
- The implications of automated record keeping within anaesthesia
- Use of closed circuit “rebreather” technology by divers
- WHO Safe Surgical Checklist
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