Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine
MBCHB MBA FRCA FFICM
West Yorkshire & Nationwide
Dr Andrew Breen is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia based at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS trust, West Yorkshire, a position he has held since 2005.
Intensive care medicine:
Dr Breen’s clinical expertise is in the comprehensive delivery of support to patients requiring general intensive care and cardiac intensive care.
His clinical workload comprises the breadth of general intensive care medicine, as well as the specialist areas of liver failure and transplantation, upper GI and bariatric surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, haematology and oncology. This includes the treatment of sepsis, shock/cardiovascular support, respiratory failure and multiple organ failure.
His academic and educational interests include
Anaesthesia:
Dr Breen’s clinical expertise in anaesthesia comprises all areas of general surgery, as well as the specialist areas of thoracic surgery, hepatobiliary surgery, upper GI and bariatric surgery.
This includes
Sepsis:
As a consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia, Dr Breen has been managing sepsis for over 20 years.
His interests in sepsis range across the intensive care environment, the hospital ward environment and the operating theatre, and include early resuscitation, system-wide quality management and the education of all frontline healthcare providers in optimal management.
Intravenous fluid therapy:
Dr Breen is an experienced educator and quality improver in the administration of intravenous fluids.
He has delivered educational lectures at a local and national conferences (Intensive Care Society State of the Art conference, Acute and General Medicine conference) on how to avoid harm when prescribing intravenous fluids.
Cardiff University Bond Solon Civil Expert Certificate
GMC Code 4221988