Dr Basil Almahdi

 Professional experience

• More than 20 years of experience
• Consultant in Pain Medicine, Bupa Cromwell Hospital (2019 - present)
• Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, Highgate Private Hospital (2014 - present)
• Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, The Wellington Hospital (2012 - present)
• Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, Whittington Health (2012 - present)

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 Sub-specialties

• Spinal degenerative disease
• Nerve root injection
• Neuromodulation
• Opioid management
• Spinal cord stimulation
• Acute pain
• Nerve pain
• Spinal pain
• Abdominal pain
• Acupuncture
• Arm pain
• Biofeedback
• Botulinum toxin injections (non cosmetic)
• Breast pain
• Cancer pain
• Caudal epidural
• Chest pain
• Chronic pain
• Column fixation
• Coronavirus
• Diabetic neuropathy (diabetes pain)
• Diathermocoagulation
• Discectomy
• Dynamic fixation
• Epicondylitis (tennis elbow)
• Epidural infiltration
• Epidurolysis
• Epiduroplasty
• Facial pain
• Fibromyalgia
• Frozen shoulder
• General anaesthesia
• Growth factors
• Headache
• Hip pain
• Infiltration ultrasound-guided and fluoroscopy
• Infusion pump
• Joint injections
• Joint pain
• Laminectomy
• Lidocaine administration
• Lower back pain
• Lumbar discectomy
• Lumbar fusion
• Lumbar herniated disc
• Lumbar nerve root block
• Medial branch block
• Medicolegal
• Metatarsalgia
• Migraine
• Minimally invasive spinal surgery
• Musculoskeletal pain
• Myofascial pain
• Neural therapy
• Neuralgia
• Neuromodulation
• Opioid dependence
• Osteoarthritis
• Ozone therapy
• Paediatric pain management
• Pain pelvic floor and perineal
• Pain treatment
• Pathologies of pain
• Pelvic pain
• Peripheral arterial disease
• Peripheral nerve block
• Plantar fasciitis
• Psychology of pain
• Radiofrequency treatment
• Reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome
• Rheumatism
• Rhizotomy
• Rigid fixation
• Second medical opinion
• Sedation and general anaesthesia
• Spinal cord stimulator
• Spinal disc replacement
• Spinal stenosis
• Sports traumatology
• TAVI (transcatheter aortic valve implantation)
• Temporomandibular joint disorder (TMJ)
• Toe pain
• Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS)
• Trigeminal neuralgia
• Ulnar nerve surgery
• Vertebroplasty
• Whiplash

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 Teaching posts

• Undergraduate Tutor for Anaesthesia at Whittington Hospital, University College London (2012 - present)
• Founded and presents a medical education satellite TV program to educate Arabic-speaking third world countries, it is broadcast on Al-Mawaddah TV Al-Qamar channel and can be viewed all over the world.
•  Pre-admission nursing team teacher on ECG principles in peri-operative patients, Whittington Hospital (former)

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 Education

• FFPMRCA, Pain Fellow, Pain Medicine Residency Program, University College Hospital and Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (2010)
• FRCA, Anaesthesia, Pain Medicine and Intensive Care, Royal College of Anaesthesia (2007)
• ​MBChB, Medicine, Almustansiriyah Medical School, Baghdad (1997)

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 Professional membership

• Royal College of Anaesthetists