MD, PhD, FFPMRCA
Clinical Chair in Anaesthesia
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- Email Address
- patrice.forget@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 437285
- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition





Biography
Professor Patrice Forget, MD, PhD, FFPMRCA, is Clinical Chair in Anaesthesia at the 51cg (UK), and Honorary Consultant at the NHS Grampian. He is involved in clinical research, focused mainly on pain, perioperative epidemiology and clinical pharmacology. For the last twenty years, as principal investigator and/or national coordinator, he has published more than 250 articles, letters or editorials.
He is the Chair of the PANDOS (Pain AND Opioids after Surgery) ESAIC Research Group (European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care).
External Memberships
Board Member of the European Pain Federation EFIC (Honorary Treasurer, Chair of the Societal Impact of Pain partnership with the Pain Alliance Europe)
Active member of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC), deputy Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Anaesthesiology, Acute and Chronic Pain Subcommittee Lead.
Past President of the Belgian Pain Society
- Research
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Research Overview
For the last fifteen years, as principal investigator and/or national coordinator, I have published more than 200 articles, letters or editorials, questioning current practices and opening new avenues in pain and perioperative medicine.
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Applied Health Sciences.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Current Research
My research programme, mostly focused on pain, combines perioperative epidemiology and clinical pharmacology approaches.
Collaborations
Deputy Editor-in-Chief for the European Journal of Anaesthesiology
Associate Editor for the British Journal of Anaesthesia
Associate Editor for the British Journal of Pain
Associate Editor for Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine
Senior Editor for BMC Anesthesiology
Editor for the Clinical Journal of Medicine (Section: Anesthesiology)
Board member of eCancer
Cochrane collaborator
Reviewer for more than 50 scientific journals.
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Professor of anaesthesia and pain medicine
- Publications
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Reply from the authors: Direct non-steroidalanti-inflammatory drug effect, rather than an opioid-sparing effect is the most important factor for possibly improved survival after conservative breast surgery
British Journal of Anaesthesia, vol. 114, no. 3, pp. 527-528Contributions to Journals: Letters- [ONLINE] DOI:
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The neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) after surgery for hip fracture (HF)
Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 366-371Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
Is the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio more correlated than C-reactive protein with postoperative complications after major abdominal surgery?
PeerJ, vol. 3, e713Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Consensus statement from the BJA Workshop on Cancer and Anaesthesia
British Journal of Anaesthesia, vol. 114, no. 1, pp. 2-3Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Clinical evidence for dorsal root ganglion stimulation in the treatment of chronic neuropathic pain: A review
Acta Anaesthesiologica Belgica, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 37-41Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
Ensemble autour de la douleur
Louvain Medical, vol. 134, no. 1, pp. 13-16Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE]
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Progrès récents en médecine périopératoire: Nouveaux usages des marqueurs inflammatoires
Louvain Medical, vol. 134, no. 5, pp. 201-203Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
Perioperative aspirin and clonidine and risk of acute kidney injury: A randomized clinical trial
JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 312, no. 21, pp. 2254-2264Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Inflammatory scores are not interchangeable during the perioperative period of breast cancer surgery
International Journal of Surgery , vol. 12, no. 12, pp. 1360-1362Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Une seule dose peropératoire de ketorolac original pour prévenir les récidives de cancer: Serait-ce trop simple?
Louvain Medical, vol. 133, no. 6, pp. 391-395Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
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Spinal cord stimulation for complex regional pain syndrome type 1 with dystonia: A case report and discussion of the literature
F1000Research, vol. 3, no. 97Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Aspirin in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery
The New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 370, pp. 1494-1503Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Clonidine in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery
The New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 370, no. 16, pp. 1504-1513Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Important data about anaesthetics and cancer recurrence
Scandinavian journal of anaesthesia, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 371-372Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Colorectal surgery: Towards a greater respect for body integrity
Louvain Medical, vol. 133, no. 5, pp. 305-310Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
Development of a perioperative compartment syndrome: Can transcutaneous near-infrared spectroscopy be a preventive or early diagnostic tool?
Louvain Medical, vol. 133, no. 4, pp. 189-195Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
Intraoperative use of ketorolac or diclofenac is associated with improved disease-free survival and overall survival in conservative breast cancer surgery
British Journal of Anaesthesia, vol. 113, no. S1, pp. i82 - i87Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Perspectives in anaesthesia for cancer surgery
International Journal of Surgery , vol. 140, pp. 353-359Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Neutrophil: Lymphocyte ratio and intraoperative use of ketorolac or diclofenac are prognostic factors in different cohorts of patients undergoing breast, lung, and kidney cancer surgery
Annals of Surgical Oncology, vol. 20, no. Supplement 3, pp. 650–660Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Perioperative ketorolac in high risk breast cancer patients: Rationale, feasibility and methodology of a prospective randomized placebo-controlled trial
Medical Hypotheses, vol. 81, no. 4, pp. 707-712Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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F1000Prime Recommendation: Perioperative goal-directed hemodynamic therapy based on radial arterial pulse pressure variation and continuous cardiac index trending reduces postoperative complications after major abdominal surgery: a multi-center, prospective, randomized study
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Inadequate methodology renders results on the use of tranexamic acid inconclusive
The Journal of Arthroplasty, vol. 37, no. 7, pp. 1417-1418Contributions to Journals: Letters- [ONLINE] DOI:
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F1000Prime Recommendation: Direct signaling between platelets and cancer cells induces an epithelial-mesenchymal-like transition and promotes metastasis
F1000Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Prevention of chronic postoperative pain: Cellular, molecular, and clinical insights for mechanism-based treatment approaches
Progress in Neurobiology, vol. 104, pp. 1-37Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Cancer surgery induces inflammation, immunosuppression and neo-angiogenesis, but is it influenced by analgesics?
F1000ResearchContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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