OSCCA Staff Profiles
 Ian Wrench
Email Address: Ian.Wrench@sth.nhs.uk
Deputy lead for Research OSCCA
Lead Clinician for Obstetric Anaesthesia 1999 - 2010
Qualifications: MBChB, BmedSci, PhD, FRCA
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Other posts (e.g. membership of specialist bodies etc):
- Audit lead for OSCCA
- OAA committee member 2013-16
- Member of the OAA Information for Mothers sub-committee 2013-18
- Member of OAA surveys sub-committee 2013-18
Brief overview of Research Background/ activity:
- 3 Years postgraduate laboratory based research for Ph’D
- One year Research Registrar at Queen’s Medical Centre Nottingham.
- Several ethically approved projects completed to publication since Consultant Appointment in 1998.
- Currently local PI for two portfolio studies
Grants/ studies:
- SALVO – cell salvage in Obstetrics. Part of team who prepared the successful grant application and principal investigator for Sheffield.
- POISE2 – perioperative aspirin and clonidine and their effects of perioperative cardiovascular events. PI for Sheffield for this multicentre study.
- BALANCED – RCT of two levels of BIS during surgery – PI for Sheffield for the multinational study.
- Can changes in the Pleth Variability Index be used to predict significant hypotension during spinal anaesthesia for Caesarean section? Chief Investigator – small grant from OAA
Invited lectures:
- Yorkshire Society of Obstetric Anaesthesia – Recent developments in obstetric anaesthesia 2017
- RCA study day – Hull. Supplementary oxygen for rapid sequence induction 2017
- Results of SALVO (cell salvage and obstetric anaesthesia) - Obstetric Anaesthesia Study day Manchester 2017
- Enhanced recovery for obstetric surgery
- Glasgow – Scottish Obstetric Anaesthetists 2017
- OAA three day course November 2015
- Obstetric Anaesthesia Study day Manchester 2014
- ERP learning collaborative 2014 and 15
- NHS improving quality 2013
- Physiological changes of pregnancy in relation to anaesthesia – Yorkshire Anaesthetic Society 2016
- ESRA 2015 – “magic solutions for regional anaesthesia and analgesia” and Con in debate for use of remifentanil and general anaesthesia for caesarean section.
- Massive haemorrhage in obstetrics - Obstetric Anaesthesia Study day Manchester 2015
- Side effects of regional anaesthesia and analgesia for Obstetric Anaesthetic Matrix – Chesterfield 2010 and BBraun Sheffield 2012
- Preoperative assessment (Matrix) Key topics - Sheffield, 2010
- Cell salvage and Obstetrics – regional meeting Sheffield 2009
Publications
Full list of publications by Ian Wrench
