Allan Goldman

In 2003 he was appointed as Lead Consultant for the Cardiac Critical Care Unit and Director of the ECMO service at GOSH. He is currently Divisional Co-Chair and Divisional Director of the West Division.
Specialisms
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Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
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Mechanical Support ECMO and VADs
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Patient Safety
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Human Factors
Departments
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Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) information for parents and visitors
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Cardiac Imaging information for parents and visitors
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Paediatric Cardiology information for parents and visitors
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Extra corporeal life support (ECLS) information for parents and visitors
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Heart and lung transplant information for parents and visitors
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Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit information for parents and visitors
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Pulmonary Hypertension information for parents and visitors
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Cardiothoracic surgery information for parents and visitors
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Respiratory information for parents and visitors
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Tracheal information for parents and visitors
Qualifications
MRCP (Paediatrics)
MB BcH South Africa
MSc Sports Science, South Africa
Certificate of completion of training in Paediatrics, London, UK
Member of the Medical Protection Society
Research Interests
Current research projects are:
Human factors/Patient safety
Working on a medication bundle to reduce prescription error on the CICU, briefing and debriefing on the ICU and hospital at night handover on how the hospital is run out of hours.
Mechanical Support for infants and children
The focus of this theme of research is on using mechanical support devices, such as ECMO and the Berlin Heart, to bridge children with acute myocardial failure to either recovery or transplantation.
Outcomes studies
(a) to develop a Paediatric Post Operative Morbidity Survey (PPOMS) in infants and children after congenital heart surgery
(b) a neurological follow-up (in particular memory) of children who had acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure as a neonate
(c) Evaluation of the impact of Pre-ECMO ventilation on outcome in children requiring ECMO for respiratory failure.
His research interests focus on the Human Factors aspect of team interfaces, mechanical support as a bridge to heart/lung recovery or transplantation and the genetic basis of inflammation associated with cardiac bypass.
He was the principle investigator in the study looking at the analogy of a Formula 1pit stop to handover of critically ill children from the operating theatre to the ICU after congenital heart surgery.