Emergencies in Critical Care

by Beed, Martin; Sherman, Richard; Mahajan, Ravi

• ISBN13: 9780191743160
• ISBN10: 019174316X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2013-07-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Martin Beed, Consultant in Critical Care, Critical Care Directorate, Nottingham City Hospital, UK,Richard Sherman, Consultant in Critical Care, Critical Care Directorate, Nottingham City Hospital, UK,Ravi Mahajan, Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Critical Care Directorate, Nottingham City Hospital, UK

Martin Beed graduated from Nottingham Medical School in 1994, and has worked in a wide variety of hospitals including being a medical SHO in the Shetland Isles. He trained in anaesthesia and intensive care in the Nottingham and East Midlands School of Anaesthesia; and has also worked for a year in the intensive care unit of the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia, where he developed an interest in the retrieval and transfer of critically ill patients by air or by road. He obtained a consultant post in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia in 2006 at the City Campus of Nottingham University Hospitals.


Richard Sherman trained at The University of Sheffield Medical School. He gained his current position as Consultant in Critical Care & Anaesthesia at Nottingham City Hospital in 2002. He has been a member of the Intensive Care Society for over eight years. He is a qualified Advanced Trauma Life Support instructor and enjoys the educational aspect of his work. He is involved with undergraduate and trainee teaching, audit and research.

Ravi Majahan joined the University of Nottingham in 1991 as a lecturer in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, and was awarded chair in 2006. He has a drive for education and research, has been training programme director, honorary secretary of Anaesthetic Research Society, and has held many examinerships. His main research interests include cerebral vascular physiology, and vascular physiology in sepsis.