Consultant in Critical Care Medicine and Anaesthesia
MD(res) FFICM EDIC FRCA MRCP MB ChB BSc
Overview
Areas of expertise
Medico-Legal experience
Dr Cain has undergone his medico-legal training and enjoys receiving instructions from both Claimant and Defendant law firms in personal injury and clinical negligence cases.
Clinical Practice & Experience
Dr David Cain is a consultant in Critical Care Medicine, Anaesthesia and is a Transfer Consultant for the the Retrieve Critical Care transfer service. He is the Deptuy Director and Peninsula Lead for the South West Critical Care Network (SWCCN), chairs the SWCCN transfer group and is a Subject Matter Expert for Electronic Patient Record implementation. Prior to this he was a Critical Care and Anaesthesia consultant at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London. He is actively involved with Clinical Research and Teaching. He has previously been Clinical Governance Lead, Paediatric Critical Care Lead, Organ Donation Lead and Morbidity plus Mortality Leads.
He attended the University of Edinburgh Medical School between 1998 – 2003 and later the University College London where he completed his MD(res) in 2017. His postgraduate medical training was with the North Central plus Imperial schools of anaesthesia and Pan-London critical care training.
Clinical Interests
David’s clinical interests include critical care, anaesthesia, transfer medicine, paediatric critical care, perioperative medicine, sepsis, infection control, advanced life support plus resuscitation, end of life care, bronchoscopy, echocardiography, tracheostomy insertion, central plus arterial access and digital medicine.
Research Interests
Dr Cain is currently a lead investigator for the PEACH service evaluation of critical care bed utilisation within South West England. He is currently the Chief Investigator for a studies concerning paediatric bronchitis and COVID-19 and difficult airway management within Critical Care. He reviews articles for the UK Journal of Intensive Care Society and the British Journal of Anaesthesia.
Management Experience
Dr David Cain is a subject matter expert for the implementation of Royal Cornwall Hospital‘s new Electronic Patient Record and has held roles of Clinical Lead for both Clinical Governance Infection Control and Morbidity plus Mortality. His governance roles have involved handling complaints on behalf of the Critical Care department. He has been a facilitator for After Action Review Courses and contributed to Patient Safety Incidence Review Framework investigations. He also enjoys his role as Clinical Supervisor to medical trainees and as Chief Investigator for clinical studies. He has attended several management training courses, including the Care Redesign Management Training Course at St Thomas’ hospital and The Royal Marsden Management training course.
Summary of Publications
Dr Cain is the lead author for five peer-reviewed publications and is the co-author for seven more. He has presented at eight international meetings and multiple national meetings.
Teaching & Training
Dr Cain is involved with teaching medical student, junior doctors, critical care practitioners, pharmacists and critical care nurses. He has a formal qualification in teaching from the Academy of Medical Educators. He has overseen the development of a critical care transfer course for the South West Critical Care Network and was previously a faculty member plus facilitator for an end of life communication course at University College Hospital. He is a mentor for echocardiography teaching (FICE). He has written modules for the UCL Perioperative Medicine MSc.
Prizes and Awards
Learning from Excellence awards, Royal Cornwall Hospital
Taking Pride in What We Do, St Thomas’ Hospital
Distinction in Care of the Elderly Medicine, Edinburgh University
Memberships of Professional Bodies & Learned Societies
Fellow of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine
Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists
Member of the Royal College of Physicians
Member of the Difficult Airway Society
Contact David
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