Nuffield Division of Anaesthetics
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Who is based in this Division?
Contact
t: 01865 234829
e: enquiries@ndcn.ox.ac.uk
Anaesthesia Museum
This online departmental museum was collected by Richard Salt over many years, from a wide variety of sources in the UK and abroad.
What do we do?
We maintain and develop internationally competitive research programmes in pain and consciousness, respiration and hypoxia, intensive care, simulation and human factors training.
We operate as closely associated University and Hospital divisions providing the framework for teaching, research and anaesthetic services.
We run nationally and internationally recognised teaching programmes in a range of anaesthetic related areas (e.g. primary trauma care, regional anaesthesia, and anaesthesia in the developing world).
Read the history of the Nuffield Division of Anaesthetics.
What's new
Accidental awareness in obstetric surgery under general anaesthesia more frequent than expected
13 January 2021
The largest ever study of awareness during obstetric general anaesthesia shows around 1 in 250 women may be affected, and some may experience long-term psychological harm.
Low-cost ventilator wins at E&T Innovation Awards
20 November 2020
The OxVent is a rapidly deployable and scalable low-cost mechanical ventilator specially designed for COVID-19, which has now been recognised as one of the best innovations of the year by the Institute of Engineering and Technology.