Dr Chimaobi Nnaji takes us through the basic physiology of oxygen transport and explains how bloodless surgery accomplishes the 'impossible' even at low haemoglobin.
Dr Nnaji is a Senior Consultant Anaesthesiologist, researcher and educator with Federal Medical Centre Owerri, Imo State in Nigeria. He is a Fellow of Medical College of Anaesthesia, Nigeria, and Fellow of West African College of Surgeons. He was awarded the Best Male Resident Doctor during his residency training, and Best Candidate in the Principle and Practice of Anaesthesia by the National Post Graduate Medical College of Nigeria. He is quite experienced in perioperative care of paediatric and adult patients, acute and chronic pain managements, interventional pain procedures, regional anaesthesia, critical care medicine, resuscitation, palliative care. In 2014, Dr Nnaji was awarded a scholarship in Interventional Pain Medicine fellowship, by the World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists, and International Association for the Study of Pain. Dr Nnaji served as a chief editor and pioneer editor of Gazette of Medicine, the peer reviewed medical journal of the Association of Resident Doctors of University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital. He has several publications in peer reviewed journals, and also serves as a reviewer to some national medical journals.
