Dr Chris Taylor
GMC/GDC number:
4320045
Please note that this consultant does not offer direct consultations to patients. Other consultants may refer to them to seek their expertise in your treatment.
Professional background
Dr Chris Taylor ( BSc (Hons), FRCP, FRCA, FFICM)
Medical Intensive Care Unit
Clinical Lead for department of Neuroanaesthesia
Chris Taylor is a consultant in neuroanaesthesia and neurocritical care at the National Hospital For Neurology and Neurosurgery. He studied medicine at University College London and trained in paediatrics on the East London rotation before entering anaesthesia and critical care on the north central Thames rotations mainly at University College London Hospitals.
Chris has a specialist interest in anaesthesia for Intracranial, spinal and pituitary neurosurgery as well as interventional radiology & MRI. He has a regular commitment to the neuromedical intensive care unit. Chris is the educational lead for the department of neuroanaesthesia and is a primary FRCA examiner for the Royal College of Anaesthetists.
Clinical interests:
Neurocritical care & neuroanaesthesia
Research interests
Observational retrospective studies related to outcome in patients with subarachnoid haemorrhage, status epilepticus and myasthenia gravis managed on the critical care unit.
Publications
1/ The effect on cerebral tissue oxygenation index of changes in the concentration of inspired oxygen and end-tidal carbon dioxide in healthy adult volunteers
Martin Tisdall, Christopher Taylor, Ilias Tachtsides, Terence.S.Leung, Clare.E.Elwell, Martin Smith.
Neurosurgical Anaesthesiology and Neuroscience Vol 109, N°3, September 2009
2/ Applied Cerebral physiology
Christopher Taylor & Nicholas P Hirsch
Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine Vol 8, issue 10, pp407-412 (Oct 2007)
3/ Anaesthesia for neurovascular surgery and the management of ischaemic stroke.
Christopher Taylor & Sally Wilson
Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine Vol 9, issue 5, pp202-206 (May 2008)
4/ Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antibodies: A potentially treatable cause of encephalitis in the intensive care unit.
Gerard Davies, Sarosh.R.Irani, Cordelia Coltart, Gordon Ingle, Yogi Amin, Christopher Taylor, Jeremy Radcliffe, Nicholas. P. Hirsch, Robin. S. Howard, Angela Vincent, Dimitri. M. Kullmann.
Critical Care Medicine 2010, Vol 38. N°. 2.
5/ Royal College of Anaesthetists e learning for Primary FRCA syllabus. 4 tutorials in Neuroanatomy. N.P.Hirsch, C.J.Taylor (2010)
6/ Applied Cerebral physiology
Christopher Taylor Nicholas P Hirsch
Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine Vol 11, issue 9, pp 343-348 (Sept 2010)
7/ Pharmacological and pathological modulation of cerebral physiology
Christopher Taylor Nicholas P Hirsch
Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine Vol 11, issue 9, pp 349-354 (Sept 2010)
8/ Guideline for management of Myasthenia Gravis. C.J.Taylor
Protocols in critical care/ Protocolos in Cuidados Críticos, Edited Rodrigues Villar (Ed). Editorial Marban S.i , March. 2011. ISBN: 978-84-701-797-0
9/ Cervical spine disease and anaesthesia.
Robin Kumar and Christopher Taylor
Anaesthesia and Intensive care medicine Vol 12 (6): June 2011
10/ Outcome in Poor Grade Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Patients Treated with Acute Endovascular Coiling of Aneurysms and Aggressive Intensive Care.
Taylor CJ, Robertson F, Brealey D, O'shea F, Stephen T, Brew S, Grieve JP, Smith M, Appleby I. Neurocritical Care. (2011) 14: 341-347. DOI: 10.1007/s12028-010-9377-7
11/ MRI- guided sub thalamic nucleus Deep brain Stimulation without microelectrode recording: Can we dispense with surgery under local anaesthesia?
Nakjima T, Zrinzo L, Foltunie T, Olmos IA, Taylor C, Hariz MI, Limousin P
Stereotactic Functional Neurosurgery Sept 2011 Vol 89(5); 318-325
12/ Anaesthesia for Parkinson’s disease. C.J.Taylor
Handbook of Clinical Anaesthesia. 3rd edition Part 1. pp26-29 Edited by Brian.J.Pollard .published 17th November 2011
13/ Urgent neurological problems
Taylor, Chris; Samandouras, George
Pulse;5/30/2012, vol.72 issue 20, p21
14/ Pharmacological and pathological modulation of cerebral physiology
Christopher Taylor Nicholas P Hirsch
Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine
Doi.ORG/10.1016/j.mpaic.2013 (June 2013)
15/ Late recurrent thymoma in myasthenia gravis: a case series.
Jennifer Spillane, Martin Hayward, Nicholas P Hirsch, Chris Taylor, Dimitri M Kullmann, Robin S Howard
J Neurol Neurosurgery Psychiatry 2012; 83:1030-1031 doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2012-302865
16/ Myasthenia gravis- treatment of acute severe exacerbations in the intensive care unit results in favorable long-term prognosis
J. Spillane, N.P. Hirsch, D.M. Kullmann, C. Taylor and R.S. Howard
European Journal of Neurology Vol 21 (1): 171-173 Jan 2014
17/ Neurocritical care – Nicholas Hirsch, Christopher Taylor, and Martin Smith
Clinical Intensive care Medicine 1st Edition Chapter 18, pp. 491-518,
DOI: 10.1142/9781848163898
Edited Carlos M H Gomez and published: 2014.
18/ Cervical spine disease and anaesthesia.
Robin Kumar and Christopher Taylor
Anaesthesia and Intensive care medicine Vol 15 (6): 257-260 June 2014
19/ Periprocedural Anesthetic Care for interventional Neuroradiological Procedures
Chris Taylor and Mary Newton
Techniques in Interventional Radiology 1st Edition, chapter 24, pp. 355-367
Edited by Murphy, Kieran & Robertson, Fergus published: 2014
Springer eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-4581-3 (print) 978-1-4471-4582-0 (online)