Alan Merry

Department of Anaesthesiology, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

Alan Merry is Professor of Anaesthesiology, University of Auckland, Chair of the Quality and Safety Committee of World Federation of Societies of Anaesthetists, and President of the Auckland Medico-Legal Society. He was formerly Clinical Director, Department of Anaesthesia, Green Lane Hospital, Chair of the New Zealand National Committee of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and Co-Chair of the New Zealand Medical Law Reform Group. He is co-author of the books Errors, Medicine and the Law (with Alexander McCall Smith; Cambridge University Press, 2001) and Essential Perioperative Transoesophageal Echocardiography (with David Sidebotham and Malcolm Legget; Butterworth-Heinemann, 2003).

His publications reflect interests in safety in anaesthesia, medico-legal concepts related to negligence, cardio-thoracic anaesthesia, and the management of postoperative and chronic pain (including, specifically, spinal cord stimulation for the treatment of refractory angina pectoris).

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Anesthesiology & Pain Management > Technology & Monitoring in Anesthesiology (since 26 January 2007)

Links

http://www.health.auckland.ac.nz/anaesthesiology/staff/Alan%20Merry/AFM.html

All recent recommendations

• 3.0
  Retrospective evaluation of a computerized physician order entry adaptation to prevent prescribing errors in a pediatric emergency department.
  Recommended by Alan Merry with Craig Webster
  
• 3.0
  Medication errors in anesthesia: an 8-year retrospective analysis at an urban university hospital.
  Recommended by Alan Merry with Craig Webster
  
• 4.8
  Electromagnetic interference from radio frequency identification inducing potentially hazardous incidents in critical care medical equipment.
  Recommended by Alan Merry with Craig Webster, Hartmut Gehring
  
• 6.6
  Duration of red-cell storage and complications after cardiac surgery.
  Recommended by Andrew Davenport, Alan Merry with Craig Webster, Martin Dunser, Praveen Neema with Manikandan Sethuraman
  Dissent by Neil Blumberg, Shailendra Joshi
• 3.0
  Professionalism in medicine: results of a national survey of physicians.
  Recommended by Alan Merry with Craig Webster
  
• 6.0
  The effect of drug concentration expression on epinephrine dosing errors: a randomized trial.
  Recommended by Alan Merry with Craig Webster
  
• 8.9
  Avoidance of nitrous oxide for patients undergoing major surgery: a randomized controlled trial.
  Recommended by Alan Merry, John Robert Sneyd, Mark Hamilton, Anne Lynn, Manfred Seeberger, Nigel Webster, John Laffey, Mark Nunnally
  Dissent by Marek Mirski
• 3.0
  Bivalirudin provides rapid, effective, and reliable anticoagulation during off-pump coronary revascularization: results of the "EVOLUTION OFF" trial.
  Recommended by Alan Merry
  
• 6.0
  Anaesthesia services in developing countries: defining the problems.
  Recommended by Alan Merry