Tim Walsh

professor
ANAESTHESIA, CRITICAL CARE AND PAIN MEDICINE
The University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom

Professor Anesthesiology
Biography

Tim Walsh is professor of critical care and lead for the Edinburgh Critical Care Research Group. He trained in anaesthesia and critical care in Edinburgh, and undertook research towards his MD thesis in the area of oxygen transport and metabolism during liver failure and transplantation. He was appointed consultant anaesthetist in NHS Lothian in 1999, practicing anaesthesia and critical care with a strong focus on developing a clinically focussed research programme. This culminated with the award of an Honorary Professorship in 2007 in Edinburgh University, and subsequently appointment to the first Chair of Critical Care at Edinburgh University in 2010.

Research Intrest

Pragmatic clinical trials, epidemiology, and quality improvement research.

List of Publications
Intensive care utilisation and outcomes after high-risk surgery in Scotland: a population based cohort study.
The cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor AT7519 accelerates neutrophil apoptosis in sepsis-related acute respiratory distress syndrome
Anaemia and blood transfusion in the critically ill patient with cardiovascular disease
Intensive care unit survivorship - a constructivist grounded theory of surviving critical illness
A Novel Computerized Test for Detecting and Monitoring Visual Attentional Deficits and Delirium in the ICU
Effect of day of the week on short- and long-term mortality after emergency general surgery
The Burden of Specific Symptoms Reported by Survivors After Critical Illness
Interplay of physiology, social, familial and behavioural adaptation in the long-term outcome of ARDS