Awat Kamal Aziz

Credentials:

• CCT, Royal College of Anesthetists, London, UK
• FRCA, Royal College of Anesthetists, London, UK
• EDIC, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, London, UK
• DESA, European Society of Anesthesiology, London, UK,
• MBChB, University of Sulaimanyah, Iraq

Professional Associations:

• Royal College of Anesthetists, London, UK
• Association of Anesthetists (Formerly AAGBI), London, UK

Professional Experience:

• Consultant Anesthesiologist, Churchill Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals, United Kingdom
• Consultant Anesthesiologist, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals, United Kingdom
• Consultant Anesthesiologist, Nuffield Orthopedic Centre, Oxford University Hospitals, United Kingdom
• Specialist Registrar of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Royal Berkshire Hospital, United Kingdom
• Specialist Registrar of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Oxford University Hospitals, United Kingdom
• Specialist Registrar of Anesthesia, Milton Keynes Hospital, United Kingdom

Clinical Expertise & Services Offered:

• Complex major urology surgery including robotic cancer surgery and renal auto transplantation
• Complex ENT surgery including robotic oral surgery, pharyngo-laryngectomy and vocal cord surgery.
• Complex maxillofacial and head and neck surgery including neck dissection, tongue base cancer excision and free flap reconstruction.
• Complex plastics surgery including free flaps (radial free forearm flaps and antero-lateral thigh flaps), major plastics reconstructive surgery and component abdominal wall reconstruction (CAWR).
• Complex robot-assisted colorectal surgery.
• Complex Gynecology and oncology surgery including pelvic exenteration.
• Major orthopedic surgery including revision hips, peri-prosthetic fracture surgery and sarcoma excision surgery.
• Complexed adult neurosurgery cases in all neurosurgery specializations including awake craniotomy, posterior fossa surgery, neurovascular surgery, skull base surgery and functional neurosurgery.
• Complex spinal surgery (both adolescent and adult) and cervical spine fixation surgery.
• Anesthesia for endocrine surgery including adrenalectomy, total thyroidectomy and parathyroidectomy.
• Anesthesia for transplant surgery includes simultaneous kidney and pancreas transplant and kidney transplantation (both LRD and LURD) and vascular access surgery.
• Anesthesia for major emergencies and poly-trauma cases, stabilization of the acutely ill patient and optimization for surgery.
• Complex ophthalmic surgery including bionic eye implantation surgery.
• Anesthesia for all types of breast surgery including major breast reconstructive surgery.
• Provision of remote anesthesia for all interventional radiology sub-specializations.
• Sedation for numerous surgical specialties including sedation of bariatric cases. Extensive interest and experience in the application of the following interventions in the perioperative period
• Advanced difficult airway management including jet ventilation and one lung ventilation.
• Use of THRIVE (Transnasal Humidified Rapid Insufflation Ventilatory Exchange) apneic oxygenation.
• Use processed EEG for depth of anesthesia monitoring.
• Use of total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA).
• Use of medical ultrasound for regional anesthesia, nerve blocks, spinal ultrasound and vascular access.
• Use of hemodynamic monitoring in the perioperative period.
• Proficient in effective management of acute pain in the perioperative period.