He has been a consultant and lecturer in anaesthesia and critical care in St Georges University hospital in London for 19 years, until appointed Institute Chair for Anaesthesia and Critical Care at the Cleveland Clinic London in 2019 and as a Professor of Anesthesiology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Institute of Medicine. He is a Past President of the Association for Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Critical Care in the UK and a previous editor of the British Journal of Anaesthesia Education and Echocardiography Research and Practice. He led the RCoA ‘Guidelines for Providers of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia’ for 3 years with an interest in quality and the external review process. He is an author of the first international guidelines for perioperative care after cardiac surgery published in JAMA in 2019 and the updated guidelines published in 2024 and a founder member of the cardiac ERAS advisory group. He was a member of the EACTAIC echo sub-committee and founder member of the ESICM echocardiography committee, contributing to the inception of the ESICM EDEC echocardiography accreditation. Nick has published over 100 peer reviewed articles and chapters and has been invited to lecture at ACTACC, EACTAIC, ESAIC, SCA, ESICM, IACTA conferences amongst others. He is recognised for his national and international leadership in cardiothoracic anaesthesia and critical care, cardiac ERAS, haemodynamics, clinical quality, echocardiography, research and education.
Key Author References
- Engelman DT, Ben Ali W, Williams JB, Perrault LP, Reddy VS, Arora RC, et al. Guidelines for Perioperative Care in Cardiac Surgery: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Society Recommendations. JAMA Surg. 2019.
Grant MC, Crisafi C, Alvarez A, Arora RC, Brindle ME, Chatterjee S, et al. Perioperative Care in Cardiac Surgery: A Joint Consensus Statement by the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Cardiac Society, ERAS International Society, and The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS). Ann Thorac Surg. 2024;117(4):669-89. - Vieillard-Baron A, Millington SJ, Sanfilippo F, Chew M, Diaz-Gomez J, McLean A, Pinsky MR, Pulido J, Mayo P, Fletcher N. A decade of progress in critical care echocardiography: a narrative review. Intensive Care Med. 2019;45(6):770-88.
- Vieillard-Baron A, Naeije R, Haddad F, Bogaard HJ, Bull TM, Fletcher N, et al. Diagnostic workup, etiologies and management of acute right ventricle failure : A state-of-the-art paper. Intensive Care Med. 2018;44(6):774-90.
