Dr Tom Abbott

Profile

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8664-3001

Dr Abbott is an NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine with the Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine Research Group within the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at Queen Mary University of London and an anaesthetic registrar within the London School of Anaesthesia.

Dr Abbott graduated first in his class from Oxford University Medical School in 2011, receiving distinction and three prizes awarded by the University. He undertook doctoral training with Professor Rupert Pearse and Professor Gareth Ackland, and was awarded a PhD in clinical epidemiology by Queen Mary University of London in 2017. He started his postgraduate training in anaesthesia in 2017 with the London School of Anaesthesia.

Dr Abbott uses epidemiological methods to investigate the health and wellbeing of patients undergoing surgery, which includes interventions to improve postoperative survival and reduce perioperative complications. Dr Abbott is a Chief Investigator with the UK Perioperative Medicine Clinical Trials Network and is an editor of the British Journal of Anaesthesia.

Research

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Dr Abbott uses epidemiological methods to investigate the health and wellbeing of patients undergoing surgery, which includes interventions to improve postoperative survival and reduce perioperative complications. He has taken a leading role in several international multi-centre cohort studies and clinical trials, and is the chief investigator for several on-going studies. His research interests include perioperative infection and antimicrobial prophylaxis, perioperative respiratory failure, postoperative pulmonary complications, myocardial injury, sub-clinical cardiac failure, cardiopulmonary exercise testing, autonomic dysfunction, and the impact of COVID-19 on surgery.

Key Publications

Full list of publications

1. Hui, S., Fowler, A. J., Cashmore, R. M. J., Fisher, T. J., Schlautmann, J., Body, S., . . . Abbott, T. E. F. (2022). Routine postoperative noninvasive respiratory support and pneumonia after elective surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 128(2), 363-374. doi:10.1016/j.bja.2021.10.047
2. Fowler, A. J., Dias, P., Hui, S., Cashmore, R., Laloo, R., Ahmad, A. N., . . . Abbott, T. E. F. (2022). Liberal or restrictive antimicrobial prophylaxis for surgical site infection: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 129(1), 104-113. doi:10.1016/j.bja.2022.04.013
3. Pearse, R., ABBOTT, T., Patel, A., Dias, P., Hewson, R., & Stephens, T. (2021). Postoperative continuous positive airways pressure (CPAP) to prevent pneumonia, re-intubation and death after major abdominal surgery: An international randomised trial. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. doi:10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00089-8
4. ABBOTT, T., Fowler, A., Dobbs, T., Gibson, J., Shahid, T., Dias, P., . . . Pearse, R. (2021). Mortality after surgery with SARS-CoV-2 infection in England: A population-wide epidemiological study. BJA: British Journal of Anaesthesia. doi:10.1016/j.bja.2021.05.018
5. CovidSurg Collaborative., Nepogodiev, D., Glaseby, J., Li, E., Omar, O., Simoes, J. F. F., . . . Bhangu, A. (2020). Mortality and pulmonary complications in patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection: an international cohort study. The Lancet, 396, 27-38. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(20)31182-x
6. Fowler, A. J., ABBOTT, T., PROWLE, J., & PEARSE, R. (2019). Age of patients undergoing surgery. British Journal of Surgery. doi:10.1002/bjs.11148
7. ABBOTT, T. E. F., & PEARSE, R. (2019). Depth of Anesthesia and Postoperative Delirium. JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association, 321(5), 459-460. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.0164
8. Wijeysundera, D., PEARSE, R., Shulman, M., ABBOTT, T. E. F., Torres, E., Ambosta, A., . . . Cuthbertson, B. (2018). Assessment of functional capacity before major non-cardiac surgery: an international, prospective cohort study. Lancet, 391(10140), 2631-2640. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31131-0
9. ABBOTT, T., Pearse, R., Dobbs, T. D., Harrison, E. M., Gillies, M. A., & Fowler, A. J. (2017). Frequency of surgical treatment and related hospital procedures in the United Kingdom: A national ecological study using hospital episode statistics. British Journal Of Anaesthesia, 119(2), 249-257. doi:10.1093/bja/aex137
10. Abbott, T. E. F., Ackland, G. L., Archbold, R. A., Wragg, A., Kam, E., Ahmad, T., . . . Pearse, R. M. (2016). Preoperative heart rate and myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery: results of a predefined secondary analysis of the VISION study. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 117(2), 172-181. doi:10.1093/bja/aew182
11. Abbott, T. E. F., Vaid, N., Ip, D., Cron, N., Wells, M., Torrance, H. D. T., & Emmanuel, J. (2015). A single-centre observational cohort study of admission National Early Warning Score (NEWS).. Resuscitation, 92, 89-93. doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2015.04.020

Collaborators

Internal
Prof. Rupert Pearse; Prof Gareth Ackland; Dr John Prowle; Dr Yize Wan; Dr Tim Stephens

External
Dr Louise Savic (University of Leeds); Dr Tom Dobbs (University of Swansea); Prof R. Lyons (University of Swansea); Prof Duminda Wijeysundera (University of Toronto); Dr Joyce Yeung (University of Warwick)