Colin McCartney
MBChB, FRCA, FCARCSI, FRCPC
Dr. Colin McCartney completed anaesthesia and pain management training in Scotland before completing a regional anaesthesia fellowship in Toronto in 2000. From 2000-2006 he was staff anaesthetist and director of the regional anaesthesia fellowship program at Toronto Western Hospital. In 2006 he moved to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre where he is currently director of anaesthesia research and Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto. He has published over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals in relation to regional anaesthesia and pain management and is an Editor of the journal Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine and Associate Editor of the British Journal of Anaesthesia. He currently supervises graduate students at the Institute of Medical Science at University of Toronto.
University:University of Toronto
Principal Faculty:Faculty of Medicine
Principal Department/Program:Department of Anesthesia
Principal Hospital Appointment(s):Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Telephone:416 480 4864
E-mail Address:colin.mccartney@utoronto.ca
Current Grants:
(1) 2012-2014 Physicians Services Incorporated Foundation: OPRA-Optimizing Pain and Rehabilitation after Total Knee Arthroplasty. $141,500 Co-Principal Investigator with Dr. Stephen Choi Co-investigators: James Paul, Hans Kreder, Muhammad Mamdani, Kevin Thorpe, Joel Katz, Jeffrey Gollish, Paul Stratford
(2) 2012-2016 Canadian Institutes of Health Research: METS: Measurement of Exercise Tolerance for Surgery. $980,000 Co-investigator PI: Duminda Wijeysundera, Brian Cuthbertson
(3) Sunnybrook Medical Services AFP 2010-2011 Innovation Fund: Identifying and removing barriers to the use of regional anesthesia for total hip arthroplasty in Ontario $60,270 Principal Investigator Co-investigators: Fiona Webster, Hans Kreder, Judy Watt-Watson, Richard Jenkinson, Merrick Zwarenstein, Deborah Kennedy, Alex Kiss.
Top Awards:
(1) 2011 Regional Anesthesia Teacher of the Year Award, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Key Publications:
(1) Bremner, S., McCartney, C. J., Katz, J., et al. (2012). Older adults’ postoperative pain medication usage after total knee arthroplasty: A qualitative descriptive study. Journal of Opioid Management, 8, 145-152. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22798174
(2) McNaught, A., Shastri, U., Carmichael, N., Awad, I. T., Columb, M., Cheung, J., Holtby, R. M., & McCartney, C. J. (2011). Ultrasound reduces the minimum effective local anaesthetic volume compared with peripheral nerve stimulation for interscalene block. Br J Anaesth, 106, 124-30. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21059701
(3) McCartney, C. J. L., Lin, L., & Shastri, U. (2010). Evidence basis for the use of ultrasound for upper-extremity blocks. Reg Anesth Pain Med, 35, S10-5. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20216020
(4) McCartney, C. J. L., Dickinson, V., Riazi, S., et al. (2010). Ultrasound provides a reliable test of local anaesthetic spread. Reg Anesth Pain Med, 35, 361-3. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20607878
(5) McCartney, C. J. L., & Patel, S. (2012). Local anesthetic volume: How low can (or should) we go? Reg Anesth Pain Med, 37, 239-41. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22476234