Contact

• workRoom W/E1373 West Block
  Queen's Medical Centre
  Nottingham
  NG7 2UH
  UK
• work0115 823 1147
• fax0115 823 1160
• austin.acheson@nottingham.ac.uk

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