Brendan
McGrath,
MB ChB FRCP FRCA EDIC DICM AHEA FFICM MAcadMEd PhD
Professor
University of Manchester, UK
Brendan’s research interests in patient safety and airway management led to the UK National Tracheostomy Safety Project, to guide the multidisciplinary response to airway emergencies.
Difficult Airway Society Professor of Anaesthesia & Airway Management 2021
Royal College of Anaesthetists Macintosh Professor 2021
Visiting Professor to Harvard Medical School in 2016
NHS England National Clinical Advisor for Tracheostomy in 2015
Brendan has won a number of awards for their work, including:
British Medical Journal Award for Anaesthesia & Perioperative Medicine Team of the Year 2020
Intensive Care Society Improvement Project Award 2020
National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia Research Award 2019
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
This multi-institutional project demonstrated how a structured approach to interprofessional collaboration and patient engagement can mitigate preventable harm and improve patient experience for patients with a surgical airway (tracheostomy). Care of such patients is high stakes and fraught with risk. Harm occurs in hospital settings and in the community because poor communication and fragmented care are pervasive. Poor coordination of care contributes to anxiety, frustrations, and complications. Avoidable visits to emergency departments or injury are all too common. We applied an…