Assistant Professor Graeme MacLaren

 

Assistant Professor Graeme MacLaren is an adult and paediatric Intensivist and Director of Cardiothoracic Intensive Care in the Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery at the National University Heart Centre, Singapore. He is also Assistant Professor of Surgery and Paediatrics at the National University of Singapore and a visiting consultant at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.

 

Asst Prof Graeme MacLaren graduated from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and trained in critical care medicine at St Vincent's Hospital, The Alfred Hospital and the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. Since 2005, he has been working as a paediatric intensivist at The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne.

  

His main professional interests are extracorporeal life support and cardiac intensive care in adults and children. He is currently Vice-President (Asia-Pacific) of the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society and serves on both the Executive Committee of the Society of Intensive Care Medicine of Singapore and the Steering Committee of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO). 

Specialty Interest(s):

Cardiac intensive care Perioperative echocardiography Extracorporeal life support

 

Specializes in Diseases and Conditions:

Critical Care

Recent Publications

1. Contemporary extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for adult respiratory failure: Life support in the new era. MacLaren G, Combes A, Bartlett RH. Intensive Care Med [in press]

2. Central extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for refractory pediatric septic shock. MacLaren G, Butt W, Best D, Donath S. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2011 Mar;12(2):133-6.

3. Comparative feasibility of myocardial velocity and strain measurements using two different methods with transesophageal echocardiography during cardiac surgery. MacLaren G, Kluger R, Connelly KA, Royse CF. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2011 Apr;25(2):216-20. Epub 2010 Aug 7.

4. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for refractory septic shock in children: one institution's experience. Maclaren G, Butt W, Best D, Donath S, Taylor A. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2007 Sep;8(5):447-51.

5. Evaluation of echocardiography indices of systolic function: a comparative study using pressure-volume loops in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery. Royse CF, Connelly KA, MacLaren G, Royse AG. Anaesthesia. 2007 Feb;62(2):109-16.

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