Dr. Griffiths, a highly skilled anaesthetist, specialising in employing a range of advanced anaesthesia techniques to optimise patient care. Dr. Griffiths will tailor anaesthesia the available anaesthetic techniques to meet the unique needs of each patient and surgical procedure, ensuring the highest level of safety and post-operative recovery.
Dr. Griffiths is adept at administering general anaesthesia, which induces a reversible state of unconsciousness, allowing patients to undergo surgery comfortably and safely. Additionally, he is trained to provide additional regional and local anaesthesia techniques, targeting specific areas of the body for pain control and minimizing the need for general anaesthesia.
Throughout procedures, Dr. Griffiths closely monitors patients' vital signs, adjusting medications as needed to maintain optimal levels of sedation, analgesia, and muscle relaxation. He works closely with his surgical consultant colleagues to ensure seamless coordination between anaesthesia and the required surgical or medical intervention.
Dr. Griffiths is a Pre-operative Exercise Testing and Evaluation accredited physician. The key component of this pre-operative assessment is Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET). CPET is a specialised diagnostic tool that provides valuable insights into your cardiovascular and respiratory fitness. During CPET, you will undergo an exercise regimen while your heart rate, oxygen consumption, and other vital parameters are closely monitored. CPET is now recognised as the gold standard risk assessment tool for patients undergoing higher risk surgery.
The following is a link to the Perioperative Exercise Testing and Training Society of the United Kingdom.
Preoperative assessment is a crucial step in the surgical journey, ensuring that patients are well-prepared for their upcoming procedure. Dr. Griffiths was the pre-operative lead for the OUH NHS trust for 5 years (2012-2017) founding a high-risk anaesthetic clinic at the Churchill Hospital. This clinic has gone from strength under his successors, and has helped reduce peri and post-operative complications and ultimately improved surgical outcomes for patients having surgery within the OUH Trust. This work was highlighted in a local news article:
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/11438698.pre-op-test-gets-heart-matter/
Drawing from this extensive pre-operative assessment experience gained in the NHS, Dr. Griffiths was appointed as the National Medical Lead for Nuffield Health (2018-2019). In this role he worked closely with the Nuffield Health Nursing Lead for Pre-operative assessment to modernise and standardise pre-assessment processes within the private sector, including the assessment of patients for higher risk surgery.
Dr. Griffiths has been providing intravenous sedation services at the Oxford Fertility practice for over 10 years. Again, he recognises the importance of creating a calm and relaxed environment, helping patients navigate the emotional and physical aspects of their fertility journey.
Dr. Griffiths provides intravenous sedation services at the Oxford Endoscopy Unit practice to help ensure the best patient experience for the procedures undertaken.
Dr. Griffiths has a specific interest in hernia surgery under local anaesthesia and carefully titrated sedation. He is the lead anaesthetist for the Spectrum Hernia Clinic that operates within the day surgery unit at the Manor Hospital, Oxford. Within this clinic he helps provide inguinal, epigastric, umbilical and femoral hernia repair under local anaesthetic.
Despite not having any formal, dedicated research time in his NHS contract Dr. Griffiths has managed to build a successful research profile. He has published 50 articles and has nearly 2000 citations in the fields of anaesthesia, preoperative assessment and critical care medicine. Given this research and academic portfolio Dr. Griffiths has been an invited speaker at and has presented his work presented at a number of national and international conferences.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John-Griffiths
The following is a link to the most recent study Dr. Griffiths was a part of in collaboration with the University of Limerick - a study that intends to ignite and stimulate debate in the perioperative medicine, pre-optimisation and pre-habilitation narrative.
https://associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anae.16158
Dr. Griffiths is a keen teacher with him actively providing teaching at a local and national level, to all domains of the anaesthetic and critical care community.
He has always felt tremendous privilege to have had the opportunity to study at Oxford University and has maintained strong links with the undergraduate teaching programme.
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