Dr Alastair Nimmo
Dr Alastair Nimmo trained in anaesthesia in Newcastle (where he also worked in Accident and Emergency and General Medicine) and Edinburgh before working as a specialist anaesthetist in Berlin. He returned to Edinburgh in 1995 to take up the post of Consultant Anaesthetist with a special interest in vascular anaesthesia. His clinical and research interests include total intravenous anaesthesia, depth of anaesthesia monitoring, transfusion and coagulopathy in surgical patients and cardiac complications of non-cardiac surgery. He is the Immediate Past President of the Society for Intravenous Anaesthesia. Dr Nimmo was a member of the NAP5 Panel and first author of three of the chapters in the NAP5 report.