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Anaesthesia
The Department of Anaesthesia is a very active unit, providing anaesthetic services to one of the largest
single site hospitals in New Zealand. We serve as a tertiary level hospital with over 21,000 anaesthetic
procedures being performed by our staff per year. All surgical specialities are provided. We also have a
very active research group led by Professor Jamie Sleigh.
Our department is accredited for specialist training by the Australian and New Zealand College of
Anaesthetists (ANZCA), for three years anaesthesia and six months intensive care. Our trainees enjoy a
high level of success with the College exams.
In 2013 the Meade Clinical Centre campus development resulted in the completion of a much revamped
and expanded theatre complex. We now provide regular anaesthetic services for 25 locations (operating
theatres, cath lab, interventional radiology etc) in the main theatre block as well as at least five other sites
around the rest of the hospital (delivery suite, ECT, brachytherapy etc).
Who we are:
• 38 full-time equivalent consultant anaesthetist positions
• Three provisional fellows
• 28 registrars
• Three SHOs
• One departmental research scientist
• Three pain nurses
• A large group of anaesthetic technicians and recovery nurses
• Trainee interns and medical students
Teaching programme:
• Weekly tutorials to assist in preparing for both part I and part II ANZCA exams.
(Our registrars have a very high success rate at both of these exams.)
• Presentations at monthly departmental meetings
• Morbidity and mortality sessions at monthly departmental meetings
• Anaesthesia crisis management simulations using “SIMMAN”
• Monthly journal club meetings
• Opportunity to attend exam preparation courses, trauma management courses and crisis
management courses at other centres
• Research opportunities
Clinical experience opportunities include (not an exhaustive list):
• Anaesthesia for emergency and elective surgery
• Obstetric anaesthesia
• Remote location anaesthesia (radiology, etc.)
• Intensive care
• Ultrasound guided regional anaesthesia and vascular access
• Intra-operative trans-oesophageal echocardiography
• Acute and chronic pain management
• Pre-anaesthetic assessment clinic
• Cardiac anaesthesia
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The team also has:
 One breast Fellow
 One colorectal Fellow
 One endocrine Fellow
 One trauma Fellow
 Four trainee registrars
 Four registrars (plus three relievers who cover general surgery/urology)
 Eight house officers (plus a pool of eight relievers who cover all surgical specialties)
 Trainee interns and students as required