Face-to-face with Dr Andy Klein - "Iron tablets can be a waste of time in many patients"
Dr Andrew Klein is a Consultant Anaesthetist at Nuffield Health Cambridge Hospital and Papworth Hospital in Cambridge. He has a long interest in anaemia management and was one of the first clinicians to highlight the problems of anaemia in patients undergoing surgery. He has set up one of the first preoperative pathways for intravenous iron therapy in heart surgery.
Dr Andrew Klein is the Editor of the journal, Anaesthesia with significant publications on anaemia management, iron deficiency and iron therapies. He has led groundbreaking work into the diagnosis of iron deficiency in patients with anaemia highlighting the need for intravenous iron therapy. As part of CAVIAR, he leads international research into intravenous iron therapy in patients undergoing surgery.
Special interests
- Anaemia management
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