Dr Jonathan Gatward
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Dr Jonathan Gatward

MBChB BSc FCICM FRCA DICM Cert Ed FHEA
Clinical Senior Lecturer
Intensive Care Medicine: Northern Clinical School
Jonathan dual trained in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine in the UK before coming to Australia. He is now a Senior Staff Specialist in Intensive Care Medicine at Royal North Shore Hospital.
Jonathan dual trained in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine in the UK before coming to Australia. He is now a Senior Staff Specialist in Intensive Care Medicine at Royal North Shore Hospital.
-Outcomes in medical education and medical simulation, especially in-situ simulation.
-Benefits of technology in education: website design, e-learning packages, videos, podcasts, vodcasts
-Quality and safety in healthcare
-Airway management in Critical Care
-Improving the consent rate in organ and tissue donation
Jonathan has a Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education and is a trained simulation instructor. He is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney, and regularly teaches medical students.
He co-coordinates the education program at the Royal North Shore Hospital Intensive Care Unit and runs the in-situ simulation program. His special interests include airway management and human factors training. He runs a highly popular inter professional airway course for for critical care clinicians - the Critical Care Airway Management Course.
He is also the Co-Director of the Sydney Short Course in Intensive Care Medicine - a preparatory course for the Second Part Examination of the Fellowship of the College of Intensive Care Medicine.
-Royal North Shore Hospital ICU in-situ simulation program
-Royal North Shore Hospital ICU e-learning program
-Royal North Shore Hospital Tracheostomy Team Medical Lead
-Royal North Shore Hospital Airway Safety Group
-Statewide At Risk Airway Alert project
-Critical Care Airway Management Course
-Sydney Short Course in Intensive Care Medicine
-Immediate Past President, current Director, Safe Airway Society
-ANZCA Airway Co-Lead
-DonateLife Organ Donation Specialist Medical
-Clinical Best Practice Working Group, Intensive Care NSW

-New South Wales Health Awards – Patient Safety First (2020), NSLHD Quality and Improvement Award (2020), Australian Healthcare Standards Quality Improvement Award (Healthcare Measurement, 2019) for project: Reducing inappropriate arterial blood gas testing in a level III intensive care unit.

-Exceptional People Awards 2017: Evidence Based Decision Making, RNSH Tracheostomy Team

-Northern Clinical School Stage 2 Clinical Teaching Award 2015.

-Head of School Award for Outstanding Achievement in Innovation and Teaching, Bristol School of Anaesthesia, 2009.

Publications

Journals

  • Karamchandani, K., Casey, J., Cook, T., Divatia, J., Duggan, L., Ellard, L., Ergan, B., Jonsson Fagerlund, M., Gatward, J., Greif, R., et al (2024). Tracheal intubation in critically ill adults with a physiologically difficult airway. An international Delphi study. Intensive Care Medicine, 50(10), 1563-1579. [More Information]
  • Brewster, D., Groombridge, C., Gatward, J. (2021). Consensus statement: Safe Airway Society principles of airway management and tracheal intubation specific to the COVID-19 adult patient group. Medical Journal of Australia, 214(1). [More Information]
  • Rajamani, A., Huang, S., Subramaniam, A., Thomson, M., Luo, J., Simpson, A., McLean, A., Aneman, A., Madapusi, T., Lakshmanan, R., Gatward, J., et al (2021). Evaluating the influence of data collector training for predictive risk of death models: An observational study. BMJ Quality and Safety, 30(3), 202-207. [More Information]

2024

  • Karamchandani, K., Casey, J., Cook, T., Divatia, J., Duggan, L., Ellard, L., Ergan, B., Jonsson Fagerlund, M., Gatward, J., Greif, R., et al (2024). Tracheal intubation in critically ill adults with a physiologically difficult airway. An international Delphi study. Intensive Care Medicine, 50(10), 1563-1579. [More Information]

2021

  • Brewster, D., Groombridge, C., Gatward, J. (2021). Consensus statement: Safe Airway Society principles of airway management and tracheal intubation specific to the COVID-19 adult patient group. Medical Journal of Australia, 214(1). [More Information]
  • Rajamani, A., Huang, S., Subramaniam, A., Thomson, M., Luo, J., Simpson, A., McLean, A., Aneman, A., Madapusi, T., Lakshmanan, R., Gatward, J., et al (2021). Evaluating the influence of data collector training for predictive risk of death models: An observational study. BMJ Quality and Safety, 30(3), 202-207. [More Information]
  • Brewster, D., Nickson, C., McGloughlin, S., Pilcher, D., Sarode, V., Gatward, J. (2021). Preparation for airway management in Australia and New Zealand ICUs during the COVID-19 pandemic. PloS One, 16, e0251523. [More Information]

2020

  • Walsh, O., Davis, K., Gatward, J. (2020). Reducing inappropriate arterial blood gas testing in a level iii intensive care unit: A before-and-after observational study. Critical Care and Resuscitation, 22(4), 370-377. [More Information]

2019

  • Chrimes, N., Bradley, W., Gatward, J., Weatherall, A. (2019). Human factors and the 'next generation' airway trolley. Anaesthesia, 74(4), 427-433. [More Information]

2018

  • Brewster, D., Nickson, C., Gatward, J. (2018). Airway education in intensive care medicine in Australia and New Zealand: what are we doing? Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, 46(2), 240-242.
  • Brewster, D., Nickson, C., Gatward, J., Staples, M., Hawker, F. (2018). Should ongoing airway education be a mandatory component of continuing professional development for College of Intensive Care Medicine Fellows? Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, 46(2), 190-196. [More Information]

2017

  • Potter, J., Gatward, J., Kelly, M., McKay, L., McCann, E., Elliott, R., Perry, L. (2017). Simulation-Based Communication Skills Training for Experienced Clinicians to Improve Family Conversations About Organ and Tissue Donation. Progress in Transplantation, 27(4), 339-345. [More Information]

2016

  • Spurr, J., Gatward, J., Joshi, N., Carley, S. (2016). Top 10 (+1) tips to get started with in situ simulation in emergency and critical care departments. Emergency Medicine Journal, 33(7), 514-516. [More Information]

2015

  • Gatward, J., O'Leary, M., Sgorbini, M., Phipps, P. (2015). Are potential organ donors missed on general wards? A 6-month audit of hospital deaths. Medical Journal of Australia, 202(4), 205-208. [More Information]

2014

  • Fearnley, R., Gatward, J., Gattas, D. (2014). Iatrogenic hypercalcaemia including Takotsubo cardiomyopathy in regional citrate anticoagulation for continuous venovenous haemodialysis. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, 42(4), 520-521.

2012

  • Husain, T., Gatward, J., Hambidge, O., Asogan, M., Southwood, T. (2012). Strategies to prevent airway complications: A survey of adult intensive care units in Australia and New Zealand. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 108(5), 800-806. [More Information]

2011

  • Husain, T., Gatward, J., Harris, R. (2011). Use of subglottic suction port to enable verbal communication in ventilator-dependent patients. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 184(3), 384-384. [More Information]

2010

  • Kelly, F., Gatward, J., Howes, B., Gould, T. (2010). Kinking of intubating laryngeal mask tracheal tubes following fibreoptic intubation. Anaesthesia, 65(6), 653-653. [More Information]

2009

  • Cook, T., Gatward, J., Handel, J., Hardy, R., Thompson, C., Srivastava, R., Clarke, P. (2009). Evaluation of the LMA Supreme in 100 non-paralysed patients. Anaesthesia, 64(5), 555-562. [More Information]
  • Khavandi, A., Gatward, J., Whitaker, J., Walker, P. (2009). Myocardial infarction associated with the administration of intravenous ephedrine and metaraminol for spinal-induced hypotension. Anaesthesia, 64(5), 563-566. [More Information]

2008

  • Gatward, J., Thomas, M., Nolan, J., Cook, T. (2008). Effect of chest compressions on the time taken to insert airway devices in a manikin. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 100(3), 351-356. [More Information]
  • Georgiou, A., Gatward, J. (2008). Emergency anaesthesia in central core disease. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 100(4), 567-567. [More Information]
  • Gatward, J., Cook, T., Seller, C., Handel, J., Simpson, T., Vanek, V., Kelly, F. (2008). Evaluation of the size 4 i-gel airway in one hundred non-paralysed patients. Anaesthesia, 63(10), 1124-1130. [More Information]