Written by Doctor Gerard Furlong managed to graduate with honours from St Bartholomew’s College Hospital in 1992 and proceeded to pursue a career being an anaesthetist in a number of large hospitals around the uk.
The role of the anaesthetist is an important element of delivering a good quality of health care to patients. Ged Furlong while working as an anaesthetist was in charge of an array of responsibilities for the patients that he cared for. These incorporated pre-op examination of individuals, referring with with the operative team conducting the surgery, creating an individual anaesthesia plan for each patient and post-op treatment and management of subjects.
As anaesthetists are perioperative medical professionals it gives them the opportunity to work in many areas of practice inside the field of medicine. During his career the anaesthetist Gerard Furlong has worked within the fields of obstetrics, within the ICU (intensive care unit) at Coventry and Warwick infirmary and also at the Trauma elective ward in Dunganon infirmary in Northern Ireland. Over the course of his career Doctor Furlong came to enjoy his work in the obstetrics ward the most immediately after realising that he had a wonderful natural talent for giving epidurals to ladies at the business end of childbearing.
Ged Furlong is a member of a number of health-related organisations. Membership of these societies makes it possible for him to remain current with the latest developments and breakthroughs in the field of anaesthesia and also contribute articles to their journals. His specialist knowledge has been utilized in a number of research assignments especially on the HL7 CDA implementation guide for SCATA (Society for Computers And Technology in Anaesthesia).
Ged has a number of interests which he pursues whenever he can find the time. These include sailing, travel and he has taken up golfing an experience that so far he’s discovered to be quite frustrating.
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