Anaesthesia is the official journal of the Association of Anaesthetists and is international in scope and comprehensive in coverage. It publishes original, peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of general and regional anaesthesia, intensive care and pain therapy, including research on equipment. Although primarily a clinical journal, we welcome submissions or basic science papers if the authors can demonstrate their clinical relevance. The median time from submission to first decision is 12 days. Article commenting is available on each individual paper allowing rapid responses to, and debate on, all published material.

Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
 

Professor A A Klein MBBS FRCA FFICM
Macintosh Professor of Anaesthesia
Chairman, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge
 

 
Senior Editor
 

Professor A F Smith BM BS MRCP FRCA
Consultant Anaesthetist, Royal Lancaster Infirmary
Hon. Professor of Clinical Anaesthesia, Lancaster University, UK
 
 
Editorial Coordinator
 

Rona Gloag BA (Hons)
Association of Anaesthetists
email: anaesthesia@anaesthetists.org
 


Editors
 

Dr Seema Agarwal BM BS MA FRCA
Senior Lecturer, Manchester University
Consultant in Cardiac Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Manchester University Hospital
 
 
Dr C R Bailey FRCA
Consultant Anaesthetist, Guys and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
 
 

Dr J B Carlisle BSc MBChB MRCP FRCA
Consultant Anaesthetist, Torbay Hospital, South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, Torquay, UK
 
 

Dr Laura V. Duggan MD FRCPC
Clinical Associate Professor, University of British Columbia
 
 

Dr K El-Boghdadly MBBS BSc FRCA EDRA MSc
Consultant, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London
Editor, Anaesthesia Reports www.anaesthesiareports.org
 
 

Professor M G Irwin MBChB MD FRCA FHKCA FANZCA
Head, Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Hong Kong
Chief of Service, Queen Mary Hospital/HKU Shenzhen Hospital, Hong Kong
 
 
Professor B J Jenkins MBBS FRCA FFICM MSc MedEd
Senior Lecturer in Anaesthetics and Critical Care Medicine, Cardiff University
Hon. Consultant Cwm Taf LHB, Department of Anaesthetics, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK
 
 
Dr S M Kinsella MB BS FCAI
Consultant Anaesthetist, St Michael's Hospital, University Hospitals Bristol NHSFT, Bristol, UK
 
 

Dr Helen Laycock MBBS BSc PhD FRCA
Clinical Lecturer Pain Medicine, Imperial College, London
ST7 Anaesthesia, Imperial School of Anaesthesia, London
 
 

Dr A E Vercueil MBChB MRCP FRCA EDIC FFICM
Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive care Medicine, King's College Hospital, London, UK
 
 
Dr M Wiles MMedSci MRCP FRCA FFICM
Consultant Anaesthetist, Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Hon. Clinical Lecturer, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
 
 
Social Media Editor
 

Dr M Charlesworth MSci MBChB PGCert FRCA MSc FFICM
Consultant in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia, Critical Care and ECMO, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, UK
 
 
AnaesthesiaTrainee Fellows
 

Dr E Gilbert-Kawai MBChB MSc (Hons) DIC PhD FRCA
Anaesthetic & ICM SPR, The Central London School of Anaesthesia

Dr E-J Smith MBBS BSc (Hons) MRCP FRCA FFICM PGCert (MedEd) DRCOG 
ST6 Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine 
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK 
 
 
International Advisory Panel

PD Dr E Albrecht
Program Director of Regional Anaesthesia, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
Dr B Biccard
Professor and Second Chair, Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, South Africa
Dr N C Chrimes
Consultant Anaesthetist, Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, Australia
Dr I Cortinez
Associate Professor of Anaesthesiology, Head of the Anaesthesiology Division, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Hospital, Santiago, Chile
Dr A Dennis
Director of Anaesthesia Research, Consultant Anaesthetist, The Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne & Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr G Djaiani
Associate Professor of Anesthesia, Director of Cardiovascular Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Cardiac Anesthesia Fellowship Research, Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Professor R Dyer
Professor and Second Chair, Department of Anaesthesia, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Dr N B Foss
Consultant Anaesthetist, Head of GI and Orthopaedic Anaesthesia & Associate Professor, Hvidovre Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Dr J Gadsden
Associate Professor, Duke University School of Medicine; Chief, Division of Orthopaedic, Plastic and Regional Anesthesiology; Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship Director,
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, USA

Dr M Heesen
Honorary Professor of the University of Aachen; Consultant, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Kantonsspital Baden, Baden, Switzerland
Dr J M Huitink
Airway Management Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dr M Kertai
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, USA
Dr J Kurata
Jr Associate Professor of Anaesthesiology
Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Dr E R Mariano
Chief, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care Service and Associate Chief of Staff for Inpatient Surgical Services, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, California, USA; Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, California, USA
Dr S Marshall
Senior Research Fellow, Anaesthetics and Perioperative Medicine, Monash University & Clinical Associate Professor, Medical Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Professor H Otake
Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Japan
Dr A Palanisamy
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Barnes Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

Dr T Selak
Senior Consultant Anaesthetist, Wollongong Hospital, Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Professor Jae-Kwang Shim
Professor and Chief of Cardiovascular Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Severance Cardiovascular Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
Statistical Advisor
Siu Wai Choi
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Hong Kong
Veterinary Advisor
Professor RS Jones DVSc DVA DipACVAA DipECVAA FRCA FRCVS
Institute of Veterinary Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Production Editor
Qingwen Li, Singapore
email: anae@wiley.com
Association of Anaesthetists
 
Chairman/
President
Dr K Ferguson
Honorary Secretary
Dr T Meek
Honorary Treasurer
Dr R Gill
Honorary Membership Secretary
Dr T Sheraton
Immediate Past Honorary Membership Secretary
Dr U Misra
Trainee Committee representative
Dr K Miller
Association of Anaesthetists Board Members
Professor W Fawcett, Dr M Patteril, Dr R Self