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Nuffield Division of Anaesthetics

We maintain and develop internationally competitive research programmes in pain and consciousness, respiration and hypoxia, intensive care, simulation and human factors training.

Oxygen deprivation in critical care and at high altitude

Oxygen deprivation in critical care and at high altitude

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Better sleep for patients in hospital

Better sleep for patients in hospital

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Trainee doctors in our simulation suite

Trainee doctors in our simulation suite

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What's new

Researchers target intensive care noise problem

8 April 2016

Research Anaesthetics
Understanding how we perceive the threat of breathlessness

1 March 2016

Research Anaesthetics Functional MRI of the Brain
Tablet computers replace bedside charts

26 February 2016

Anaesthetics

Latest publications

Sub-threshold depressive symptoms and brain structure: A magnetic resonance imaging study within the Whitehall II cohort.
Allan CL. et al, (2016), J Affect Disord, 204, 219 - 225
Incorporating outlier detection and replacement into a non-parametric framework for movement and distortion correction of diffusion MR images.
Andersson JL. et al, (2016), Neuroimage, 141, 556 - 572
Faster permutation inference in brain imaging.
Winkler AM. et al, (2016), Neuroimage, 141, 502 - 516

More publications

Improving Patient Safety

Head

Irene Tracey

Head of the Nuffield Division of Anaesthetics and Head-elect Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

irene.tracey@ndcn.ox.ac.uk

+44 (0) 1865 222724

Contact

e: enquiries@ndcn.ox.ac.uk

Research Groups

We are investigating human hypoxia physiology relevant to critical care and aviation medicine. This includes experimental work in the laboratory, in hospital patients, at high altitude in the mountains, and during airline flights.

Aerospace Medicine Research Group

Under the clinical direction of Professor Duncan Young and Dr Peter Watkinson, the Critical Care Research group undertakes research projects to identify early patient deterioration and long-term clinical outcomes of patients who have been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit.

Critical Care Research Group (Kadoorie Centre )

We strive to continually improve airway management in anaesthesia with a focus on minimising risk associated with difficult airways.

Oxford Airway Group

The aim of OxPPOPS is to identify the incidence and predictive factors for the development of persistent pain after surgery. We have just finished recruiting a cohort of patients having planned caesarean sections.

Oxford Persisting Post-Operative Pain Study

The Oxford Respiratory Group works collaboratively on a range of projects dedicated to Respiratory Control. Professor Pandit's group studies anaesthetic effects on oxygen sensing and also focusses on clinical research related to effects of anaesthetics on respiration and anaesthetic techniques on the lungs and airway.

Oxford Respiratory Group

The Cochrane Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care (PaPaS) Review Group is based at the Oxford Pain Relief Unit, Churchill Hospital.

Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care (PaPaS) Review Group

We investigate mechanisms of respiratory control, and the processes underlying breathlessness, using non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging techniques.

Respiratory Control

We work on modelling and monitoring disordered ventilation and gas exchange in acute and chronic lung disease.

Respiratory Physiology and Biomedical Engineering Group