Dr Austin Acheson
Queens Medical Centre Campus, Derby Road, Nottingham, NG7 2UH
+44 115 823 1147 austin.acheson@nottingham.ac.uk View full bio
Clinical Associate Professor in Colorectal Surgery
Research Summary
Interests
- Chronic anal fissure
- Anal sphincter Pharmacology
- Intravenous iron therapy in IDA
- Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery
Techniques
- In vitro models for sphincter pharmacology
- clinical studies
Projects
- Intravenous iron for colorectal cancer/oesophagogastric cancer
- Contractile and radioligand studies in the anal sphincter
- Methoxamine and faecal incontinence
- The effect of statins on the mortality associated with sepsis and elective colorectal surgery
- Consent in emergency laparotomy
Studies
| Title | Start Date | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A pilot study in healthy volunteers to assess the influence of time spent in the Trendelenburg posi | 1st October 2014 | Ended |
| A pilot study to assess the efficancy of intravenous iron isomaltoside 1000 monofer in the managemen | 10th August 2015 | Ended |
| A randomised double-blind controlled phase III study to compare the efficacy and safety of intraveno | 7th June 2016 | In Recruitment |
| An open label study to determin the efficancy of ferric carboxymaltose in preoperative colorectal ca | 1st June 2011 | Ended |
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