Sir Ivan Whiteside Magill (1888-1986)
This site
has no flashing lights or fancy graphics and is maintained by:
Dr. S.M. Yentis
Magill Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive
Care & Pain Management
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
369 Fulham Road
London
SW10 9NH, UK
Last updated: June 2009
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital was
offically opened by Queen Elizabeth II in May 1993. The hospital replaced the
Westminster, St Stephen’s, St Mary Abbot’s, Westminster Children’s and West
London Hospitals. It provides care for people living in Chelsea and Kensington,
as well as parts of Westminster, Fulham, Battersea and Wandsworth. Before
becoming a Trust in April 1994, the Chelsea & Westminster together with Charing
Cross Hospital constituted Riverside Hospitals. Charing Cross Hospital became
part of the Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust and is now part of the Imperial
College Healthcare NHS Trust. Chelsea and Westminster Hospital became a
Foundation Trust in 2006.
The Department is named
after Sir Ivan Whiteside Magill who worked at the Brompton and Westminster
Hospitals. Magill was a pioneer of British anaesthesia and is best known for
developing tracheal intubation and pulmonary anaesthesia, although he
contributed to almost every aspect of anaesthesia.
The Academic Department of
Anaesthetics was established at the Westminster Hospital in 1966 when Geoffrey
(later Sir Geoffrey) Organe became the first Professor of Anaesthetics in an
English undergraduate Medical School. In 1970, the Department officially became
the ‘Magill’ Department and Sir Ivan came to the inauguration. In 1974,
Professor Organe retired and Cyril Conway was appointed Professor.
The Magill Department
joined with the Department of Anaesthetics at St. Stephen’s Hospital, Chelsea
and Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton in 1978. In 1983, Westminster and Charing
Cross Medical Schools merged. Cyril Conway became Professor of the joint
Charing Cross & Westminster Academic Department. Professor Conway died in
1985 and Stanley Feldman was appointed Professor in 1990, retiring in 1995. The
Westminster Hospital moved to the new Chelsea & Westminster Hospital at the
old St. Stephen’s Hospital site in 1994. In 1997 Imperial College School of
Medicine was formed (incorporating Imperial College School of Medicine at the
National Heart and Lung Institute; Imperial College School of Medicine at St
Mary’s; the Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School; and the Royal
Postgraduate Medical School); in 2001 the School of Medicine became the Faculty
of Medicine at Imperial College, London. The
Magill Department is now part of the Department
of Anaesthetics, Pain Medicine and Intensive Care within Division of Surgery, Oncology,
Reproductive Biology and Anaesthetics (SORA) Professor Mervyn Maze took up the Chair in
1999 and became Head of SORA in 2007.
The NHS Magill Department changed
its name to the Magill Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care & Pain
Management in 1998 to reflect the broad nature of its activities. It is part of
the Anaesthetics & Imaging Directorate at the Chelsea & Westminster
Hospital; the Clinical Director is Dr M Phelan (Radiology).
There are 18 SpRs who
rotate between the Chelsea and Westminster and other hospitals within the Imperial School of Anaesthesia,
two obstetric anaesthetic fellows and two ICU fellows. A number of other
research posts are also in place at any one time.
There are seven ST-1/2
posts; they rotate to Charing Cross Hospital and Hammersmith Hospital. The
Department takes on ST-1s both with and without prior anaesthetic experience
(enquiries to Dr. P. Brooks)
·
Ms M Fortier: PA/Coordinator
·
Ms K Wong:
Anaesthetic Secretary
Academic staff
·
Prof
M Maze: Head of Dept; Head of Neurosciences Group
·
Prof
M Takata: Head of Critical Care Group
·
Dr
N Marczin: Head of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia Group
·
Dr
A Rice: Head of Neuropathic Pain Group
·
Dr
I Nagy: Head of Sensory Pain Group
·
Mr
F Noormohamed: Dept Aministrator/Laboratory Manager
·
Ms W Torto: PA to Prof Maze (for
enquiries about the Academic Dept)
I have tried to list sites
which offer good inclusive lists of further resources, rather than list all the
individual resources themselves, to avoid cluttering and repetition. Perhaps
one day there will be better coordination of how information is presented at
anaesthetic sites; until then you’ll get the same links to other sites at every
site you visit. Where I’m not aware of good index sites (i.e. general or UK
orientated and not too unwieldy), I’ve attempted to provide lists myself.
UK &
Ireland Anaesthetic Departments:
The number with web pages is steadily
increasing; here’s a list
Other UK academic sites are
listed here
Anaesthetic
sites:
There is an ever increasing number - the
following selection has a general or UK slant:
·
Anaesthetic
Research Society
·
Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain
& Ireland
·
Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthetists
·
Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists
·
British Medical Acupuncture
Society
·
British Society of Orthopaedic Anaesthetists
·
Centre for Maternal and Child Enquiries
·
History of Anaesthesia Society
·
National Confidential Enquiry into Patient
Outcome and Death
·
Neuroanaesthesia Society of Great Britain
& Ireland
·
Obstetric Anaesthetists’ Association
·
Royal College of Anaesthetists
·
Society for Computing and Technology in
Anaesthesia
·
Society for Education in Anaesthesia (UK)
·
Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology
·
UK Society for Intravenous Anaesthesia
·
Your Anaesthetic (joint AAGBI/RCA
site for patients)
Other
medical sites:
·
Department of Health, UK - official
statistics and reports
·
National Library of Medicine at Washington -
listings of just about every publication in existence
·
Tagish’s directory of UK local
and central government, health and other organisational structures