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Dr. Alan Gilston was the senior Consultant Anaesthetist at the National Heart Hospital, London from 1967 - 1990. His interest in intensive care began when he worked as a registrar at the Brompton Hospital, London from 1959 where cardiac surgery, and in particular open heart surgery, had several years earlier become a significant feature of this hospital’s work, in additional to pulmonary surgery. He initiated post-operative mechanical ventilation for acute post-operative respiratory distress in these patients.
In 1974 he established the Intensive Care Society and later initiated the First World Congress on Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (London 1974) and the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (1981).
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