- Bupa Platinum consultant
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Fee assured
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Awaiting
verification
- Open Referral network
About me
Dr Matthew Rooney is an experienced consultant anaesthetist based in the West Midlands. He provides anaesthesia for vascular, gynaecology, general, orthopaedic and Ear Nose and Throat surgery as well as paediatric anaesthesia for children. He holds a current European Paediatric Advanced Life Support (EPALS) certificate.
He graduated in medicine from Newcastle in 1986 and trained in anaesthesia at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham and Birmingham.
He was appointed a consultant anaesthetist at the Heart of England Foundation Trust in Birmingham in 1997. He has held several roles including being the lead consultant for audit, critical incidents, ophthalmic anaesthesia and IT. He has produced guidelines to minimize post-operative nausea and vomiting and run for example collaborative audit projects with surgeons on mortality and risk stratification. He cares for many of the elderly patients requiring emergency general and orthopaedic surgery. He has a particular interest in using oesophageal Doppler monitoring to optimize the heart in the critically sick emergency surgical patients. He anaesthetises children.
His typical practice includes many patients having complex vascular surgery, elective laparoscopic general and gynaecology surgery, orthopaedic, eye and day surgery. He flexibly covers most other specialties. He regularly uses techniques that combine rapid and enhanced recovery from surgery with minimal post-operative pain and nausea. This is achieved by regularly using pre-operative analgesia, local anaesthetic infiltration before venous cannulation, and carefully matching general and regional anaesthesia to the surgery and the patient. He can provide advanced sedation methods that combine rapid control of anxiety and analgesia with fast return to normal activity.
He works regularly in the independent sector particularly in particularly in vascular surgery, general surgery, orthopaedic surgery and gynaecology.
During his professional career he has developed a disposable device for instant assessment of anaemia and databases to manage critical incidents, departmental information and personalized outcome reports for anaesthetists. He regularly lectures to anaesthetists in training on subjects including statistics, physics and pharmacology. He is a member of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, the Vascular Anaesthetic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, the Ophthalmic Anaesthetists Society and a previous secretary of the Society of Computing and Technology in Anaesthesia. He has also worked with industry in helping to develop medical technologies through his involvement with Healthtech and Innovations Factory.
He was the Chief Clinical Information Officer for the Heart of England Foundation Trust until merger with the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and is currently working with making other hospitals information available at the point of care.
He is married to Alison and has five children spread over 16 years. In his spare time he likes dog-walking, cycling, DIY and tinkering with technology.
Areas of interest
Vascular anaesthesia including endovascular thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repairs; Orthopaedic anaesthesia; Ophthalmic anaesthesia; Gynaecological anaesthesia; Laparoscopic surgery anaesthesia
Information for healthcare professionals (Bupa patients only, last 12 months)
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Q1800
Hysteroscopy (including biopsy, dilatation, +/- cauterisation, curettage and resection of polyp(s) +/- Mirena coil insertion) - (5-50)
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M3111
Holmium Laser Lithotripsy for calculi of ureter (including cystoscopy and insertion/removal of stent) - (5-50)
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N3030
Circumcision - (5-50)
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D1510
Myringotomy and insertion of tube through tympanic membrane (and bilateral) - (5-50)
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M0910
Endoscopic fragmentation of calculi of kidney (including cystoscopy and insertion/removal of stent) - (5-50)
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M0940
Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (including cystoscopy and retrograde catheterisation) - (1-5)
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C3530
Surgical correction of squint with adjustable sutures - (1-5)
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M2600
Therapeutic nephroscopic operations on ureter (including cystoscopy) - (1-5)
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D0820
Reconstruction of external auditory canal - (1-5)
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F3440
Tonsillectomy - adult (and bilateral) - (1-5)
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F3400
Tonsillectomy - child (and bilateral) - (1-5)
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E2010
Adenoidectomy - (1-5)
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P2000
Excision of lesion of vagina (e.g. warts and cysts) - (1-5)
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XR660
Insertion of stent into ureter - unilateral - (1-5)
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T8520
Block dissection of axillary lymph nodes (axillary clearance) levels 1 to 3 - (1-5)
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B2820
Wide local excision of breast +/- local mobilisation of glandular breast tissue to fill surgical cavity - (1-5)
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Q1700
Therapeutic hysteroscopic operations on uterus (including endometrial ablation excluding microwave or radiofrequency ablation) +/- Mirena coil insertion - (1-5)
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E4990
Panendoscopy +/- incisional biopsy - (1-5)
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M4410
Litholapaxy (including cystoscopy) - (1-5)
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P1400
Incision of introitus of vagina - (1-5)
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Q4400
Ovarian cystectomy +/- omental biopsy (as sole procedure and including bilateral) - (1-5)
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T9021
Injection of magnetic lymphatic tracer and subsequent sentinel node mapping +/- sampling for breast cancer - (1-5)
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Q3800
Laparoscopy and therapeutic procedures (including laser, diathermy and destruction e.g. endometriosis, adhesiolysis, tubal and ovarian surgery, +/-ureterolysis) - (1-5)
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Q1702
Microwave endometrial ablation (including hysteroscopy) - (1-5)
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D1020
Modified radical mastoidectomy (including meatoplasty) - (1-5)
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D1060
Revision of mastoidectomy (including meatoplasty) - (1-5)
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D2030
Removal of grommets - (1-5)
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E0360
Septoplasty of nose (including attention to turbinates) - (1-5)
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E0412
Reduction turbinates of nose (laser, diathermy, out fracture etc) - (1-5)
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F3480
Adenotonsillectomy (and bilateral) - (1-5)
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M1000
Therapeutic endoscopic operations on kidney (include cystoscopy and retrograde catheterisation) - (1-5)
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M4514
Endoscopic examination of bladder (rigid cystoscopy) including any biopsy - (1-5)
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M6530
Endoscopic resection of prostate (TUR) (including cystoscopy) - (1-5)
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M8120
Meatoplasty - (1-5)