Dr Gordon B Drummond

Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine

Medicine at the University of Edinburgh

Last updated 17h January 2011. This page was designed and published by Duncan Paxton. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336

Gordon Drummond trained in Cambridge and Edinburgh, and spent a short time in respiratory medicine before moving to anaesthesia. He spent a year learning classical respiratory physiology in Montreal. He was appointed a full time Senior Lecturer in 1995 and was very involved in the teaching and training of medical students and trainee anaesthetists, particularly honours students, student selected components, resuscitation teaching and teaching on gas exchange in the undergraduate curriculum. He served as an editor of the British Journal of Anaesthesia and then as an editor of the Journal of Physiology. He has always enjoyed collaborative research and has worked with respiratory physicians, engineers, medical physics, pharmacologists, physiologists, and even gynaecologists! His main interests were the effects of anaesthetics and surgery on breathing. His present studies are focussed on the postoperative patient. He uses classical techniques, measuring pressure, flow and EMG; ventilatory responses to chemicals, pain, and sedation; and in addition novel systems such as structured light and orientation sensors. His recent fields of interest are the pulse plethysmograph, peripheral temperature changes, and the activity of the abdominal muscles. He retired in 2010 but continues research in these fields, and seems to have no spare time at all. He knows very little about genes or southern blots.

1. Drummond GB Comparison of sedation with midazolam and ketamine: effects on airway muscle activity. Br J Anaesth 1996; 76: 663-7

2. Drummond GB Diaphragmatic dysfunction: an outmoded concept. Br J Anaesth 1998; 80: 277-80

3. Drummond GB, Zhong NS Inspired oxygen and oxygen transfer during artificial ventilation for respiratory failure. Br J Anaesth 1983; 55: 3-13

4. Nimmo AF, Drummond GB Respiratory mechanics after abdominal surgery measured with continuous analysis of pressure, flow and volume signals. Br J Anaesth 1996; 77: 317-26

5. Murray A, Drummond GB, Dodds S, Marshall L. Low-frequency changes in finger volume in patients after surgery, related to respiration and venous pressure. Eur J Anaesthesiol 2009; 26: 9-16.