David Bennett

ICU, St George's Hospital, United Kingdom

David Bennett is Professor and former Director of Intensive Care Medicine at St George's Hospital, London.

Professor Bennett is internationally renowned for his pioneering work on the application of less invasive cardiovascular monitoring to improve outcomes and reduce costs associated with the treatment of risk surgery patients. One of his main research interests has been the application of less invasive monitoring technologies to optimise cardiovascular physiology and thereby improve outcomes in critically ill patients. He was one of the investigators using LiDCO's technology in the recently presented St George’s study entitled: 'Early goal directed therapy reduces morbidity and length of hospital stay following high risk surgery.'

Professor Bennett has chaired numerous scientific committees, was honorary Secretary of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Intensive Care. He is on the Editorial Board of Intensive Care Medicine and Critical Care. He reviews regularly for these journals and also for Critical Care Medicine and Anesthesia & Analgesia.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Section Head: Critical Care & Emergency Medicine > Acute Cardiovascular Problems (since 17 November 2005)

David Bennett is a Section Head for Acute Cardiovascular Problems, part of the CRITICAL CARE & EMERGENCY MEDICINE Faculty. The role of a Section Head is to work with their Co-Section Head(s) to divide the Section (sub-specialty area) into its component areas of research, nominate leaders in those areas as Faculty Members, and offer ongoing oversight of the content within their Section. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.