Dr Timothy Cook

Anaesthesia

Professional profile

Dr Cook is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine.

He qualified with honours from Cambridge University and London University before carrying out post graduate medical training in Newcastle, Australia and the South West.

In the last few years he has led two National Audits into major complications of anaesthesia; the first of spinals and epidural anaesthetics, and the second of airway management.

Dr Cook aims to provide an individualised, professional and evidence-based anaesthetic service.

Current NHS or research position

Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the Royal United Hospital, Bath.

Year of first medical qualification

Special clinical interests

• Safety and Quality in Anaesthesia
• Routine, advanced and difficult airway management.
• Regional anaesthesia (spinal, epidural and combined spinal epidural)
• Intensive Care medicine
• Paediatric anaesthesia

Research interests

Anaesthesia, Paediatric Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine, Laparotomy, Advanced Airway Management, Regional Anaesthesia, Safety and Quality Improvement in Anaesthesia.

Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies

• Executive Board Member of the Health Service Reserarch Centre of the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia
• Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland
• Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists
• Difficult Airway Society
• Advisor to the Royal College of Anaesthetists on National Audit Projects
• Member National Patient Safety Agency Safer Neuraxial Connectors External Reference Group