My areas of expertise are in adult anaesthesia and intensive care medicine. My combined clinical and medico-legal work has led me to develop a number of special interests including: • Preoperative assessment in general and risk assessments in complex patients prior to surgery • Regional and spinal anaesthesia and their complications • Complex orthopaedic surgery • Delayed admission to intensive care and the risk of death in critically ill patients • The physical, cognitive and psychological consequences of a critical illness known collectively ...