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Mr George McKay

Mr George McKay

Trauma & orthopaedic surgery 06086803

 

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  • Spine

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  • Face-to-face consultations
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About me

Mr McKay is a Consultant adult and paediatric spinal surgeon. He is a fellowship trained specialist and his adult deformity and degenerative practice is based at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital. His practice here encompasses the full range of degenerative and deformity pathologies throughout the cervical, thoracic and lumbo-sacral spine.

Mr McKay's paediatric deformity practice is based at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, a dedicated paediatric centre of excellence. He serves a large and culturally diverse patient population and as such has experience of managing an extensive array of spinal deformity pathologies from birth to adulthood. As well as early and late onset scoliosis surgery, His practice includes caring for a sizeable syndromal and neuromuscular patient cohort.

He was awarded his CCT in Orthopaedic surgery by the Severn Deanery training programme, and subsequently developed specialist skills in spinal surgery under national and international experts at eminent institutions both in the UK and overseas.

He added neurosurgical experience to his training by completing a fellowship at Southmead Hospital, Bristol, a level 1 trauma centre and tertiary referral centre for 4 counties. As part of the complex neurosurgical spine team, he focused on the management of cervical spine conditions, including cranio-cervical and atlantoaxial pathology. He also had the opportunity to train in cervical disc replacement, gained exposure to intradural surgery, as well as furthering his skills in thoracolumbar degenerative surgery.

Following this Mr McKay undertook a year-long fellowship at Westmead Children's Hospital, Sydney, one of the largest paediatric spine units in Australia. He was exposed to a wide range of paediatric deformity in all age groups, and was involved with the emergence of Anterior Vertebral Body Tethering (AVBT) in Australia. His research in this field has been presented internationally in Australia and New Zealand, as well as in the UK.

Mr McKay spent a further year on fellowship at Middlemore Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand, which serves as the supra-regional spinal trauma hub for the North Island. Here, he furthered his experience in the management of adult deformity, degenerative pathology (particularly of the cervical spine), and emergency spinal surgery.

Areas of interest

Cervical spine
Posterior decompression +/- Fusion; ACDF; Foraminotomy; Corpectomy; laminoplasty;


Thoracic spine
Posterior decompression +/- Fusion; MIS fusion, Anterior discectomy +/- Vertebractomy

Lumbar spine
Microdiscectomy; Laminectomy / Posterior decompression +/- Fusion / interbody fusion i.e. TLIF / PLIF, ALIF / XLIF / OLIF; coccygectomy.

Deformity
Anterior / posterior correction of scoliosis; anterior release; Posterior decompression / fusion +/- interbody fusion as above.

Injections

Nerve root blocks; transforaminal epidural injections; caudal epidural injections; MUA / injection coccyx.

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Procedures completed

  • A5745

    Medial branch block injection(s) +/- image guidance (including bilateral) LUMBAR - (5-50)

    Priory Hospital (The) (5-50) Droitwich Spa Hospital (The) (1-5) Ramsay The Stourside Hospital (1-5)

  • A5210

    Epidural injection (lumbar) - (5-50)

    Priory Hospital (The) (5-50) Droitwich Spa Hospital (The) (1-5)

  • A5765

    Neurolytic Root Block (Radiofrequency denervation, Thermocoagulation, Cryotherapy or Phenol, including Rhizolysis) +/- Image Guidance (including Bilateral) LUMBAR - (5-50)

    Priory Hospital (The) (1-5)

  • A5790

    Sacroiliac joint injection under image guidance (and bilateral) - (1-5)

    Ramsay The Stourside Hospital (1-5)

  • V2540

    Posterior excision of disc prolapse (including microdiscectomy +/- decompression) - lumbar region (1 or 2 levels) - (1-5)

    Priory Hospital (The) (1-5)

  • AC100

    Local anaesthetic by main operator - (1-5)

  • V2560

    Decompression for central spinal stenosis (1 or 2 levels) - (1-5)

  • V3362

    Primary posterior fusion with instrumentation +/- decompression +/- discectomy (including Graf stabilisation and all fusion approaches) (lumbar region) including spinal cord monitoring - (1-5)

  • V5002

    Manipulation of spine under ga/iv sedation (as sole procedure) - (1-5)

  • V2201

    Posterior decompression +/- foraminotomy - cervical region (3 or more levels) - (1-5)

  • BB906

    ExCon - Further Discretionary Payment - (1-5)

  • V4160

    Posterior correction of degenerative adult kyphosis with instrumentation, +/-fusion (including spinal cord monitoring) - (1-5)

    Droitwich Spa Hospital (The) (1-5)

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