Dr Ian Charles Woolrych English
Known as: Ian
18/11/1920 to 25/10/2011
Place of birth: Chigwell, Essex, England
Nationality: British
CRN: 528320
Education and qualifications
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General education |
Bancroft’s School, Woodford Green, East London |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
MRCS Eng., LRCP Lond., 1943 |
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Initial Fellowship and type |
FFARCS by Election |
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Year of Fellowship |
1953 |
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Other qualification(s) |
DA (RCP&S), 1947 |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
1943 House Officer, Westminster Hospital, London.
1944-1946 Surgeon Lieutenant RNVR (active at D-Day).
On demobilisation in 1946 he returned to work at the Westminster Hospital as a Registrar anaesthetist, moving at the same grade in 1947 to the Brompton Chest Hospital, London with duties the following year at Papworth Village Settlement in Cambridge. Next he was appointed Consultant Anaesthetist at Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, Welwyn. However he continued to anaesthetise at the Brompton as well as at Papworth, and by 1949 he also anaesthetised for thoracic surgery at Grove Park & Colindale Hospitals, and at Pinewood & Preston Hall Sanatorium.
In 1950 he was appointed Consultant Anaesthetist at Royal Brompton Hospital, London where he remained until his retirement in 1981.
Professional interests and activities
Developed and reported the use of percutaneous catheterisation of the internal jugular vein: 500 cases reported in Anaesthesia, 1969 (the first 200 previously reported in Thorax). This was the first documentation of central venous cannulation in the world literature.
Developed (with Roger Manley) the Brompton Manley Ventilator – 1970. This was a major development in ventilator design.
First to report the use of endobronchial intubation in infants and small children (Anaesthesia 1973).
Other biographical information
He married Jean Brown in London in 1944 and they had four children. At the start of his long and happy retirement he took up gliding, moving to Ripon, North Yorkshire. He passed away aged 90 years, predeceased by his son, but survived by his wife and three daughters.
Author and sources
Author:
John W W Gothard, MBBS, FRCA, Retired Consultant Anaesthetist
Sources and comments:
[1] Slater S. Obituary. BMJ 2011; 343: d7524. [2] Medical Register and Medical Directories. [3] Ancestry.co.uk