Dr Paul Rees
Reader in Cardiology and Resuscitation Medicine
Research areas
Paul Rees is a military interventional cardiologist at Barts Heart Centre in London, with a special interest in circulatory support and resuscitation. He is also a HEMS consultant, flying for East Anglian Air Ambulance.
As a Surgeon Commander in the Royal Navy, he is their Consultant Advisor in Medicine, as well as Reader in the Academic Department of Military Medicine. He chairs the Defence Resuscitation Committee, leads the Defence Endovascular Resuscitation Group and has recently designed and delivered a new capability for treating battlefield haemorrhage.
He co-leads the new British Cardiovascular Intervention Society group looking at out of hospital cardiac arrest, and teaches as invited faculty on a number of international endovascular resuscitation workshops. Paul’s military background includes active service with submarines, combat deployment with Commando forces, being the airborne MERT consultant in Afghanistan and numerous humanitarian and disaster relief missions including work in an Ebola treatment unit in Africa.
At the School of Medicine, he lectures as part of the ScotGEM programme, is a dissertation supervisor and performs viva voce examinations for higher degrees.
Selected publications
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Pericardial fluid analysis in diagnosis and prognosis of patients who underwent pericardiocentesis
Sullivan, A., Dennis, A. S. C., Rathod, K., Jones, D., Rosmini, S., Manisty, C., Bhattacharyya, S., Foggo, V., Conibear, J., Koh, T., Rees, P., Ozkor, M., Thornton, C. C. & O'Mahony, C., 1 Jul 2023, In: The American Journal of Cardiology. 198, p. 79-87 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Selective aortic arch perfusion: a first-in-human observational cadaveric study
Marsden, M., Barratt, J., Donald-Simpson, H., Wilkinson, T., Manning, J. & Rees, P., 12 Dec 2023, In: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. 31, 6 p., 97.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Treatment strategies and outcomes of emergency left main percutaneous coronary intervention
Bajaj, R., Ramasamy, A., Brown, J. T., Koganti, S., Little, C., Rathod, K. S., Jones, D. A., Rees, P., Guttmann, O., Lockie, T., Ozkor, M., Mathur, A., Kalra, S. S., Baumbach, A., Bourantas, C. V., Rakhit, R. & O'Mahony, C., 15 Aug 2022, In: The American Journal of Cardiology. 177, 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Balloons on the battlefield: REBOA implementation in the UK Defence Medical Services
Marsden, M. E. R., Buckley, A. M., Park, C., Tai, N. & Rees, P., 18 Aug 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: BMJ Military Health. Online First, e002054.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Defence Medical Services’ REBOA training course
Marsden, M. E. R., Park, C., Barratt, J., Tai, N. & Rees, P., 4 Oct 2021, In: BMJ Military Health. Online FirstResearch output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Intra-aortic balloon pump versus percutaneous Impella© in emergency revascularisation for myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock: systematic review
Frain, K. & Rees, P., 3 Sept 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Perfusion. 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
The REBOA window: a cadaveric study delineating the optimum site for austere cannulation of the femoral artery for resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta
Slim, N., West, C. T., Rees, P., Brassett, C. & Gaunt, M., Dec 2021, In: BMJ Military Health. 167, 6, p. 383-386Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the delivery of primary percutaneous coronary intervention in STEMI
Frain, K., Rathod, K. S., Tumi, E., Chen, Y., Hamshere, S., Choudry, F., Akhtar, M. M., Curtis, M., Amersey, R., Guttman, O., O’Mahony, C., Jain, A., Wragg, A., Baumbach, A., Mathur, A., Jones, D. A. & Rees, P., 30 Oct 2021, In: American Journal of Cardiovascular Disease. 11, 5, p. 647–658Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Validation of the CREST score for predicting circulatory-aetiology death in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest without STEMI
Jones, T. N., Kelham, M., Rathod, K. S., Knight, C. J., Proudfoot, A., Jain, A. K., Wragg, A., Ozkor, M., Rees, P., Guttmann, O., Baumbach, A., Mathur, A. & Jones, D. A., 30 Dec 2021, In: American Journal of Cardiovascular Disease. 11, 6, p. 723-733 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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43 The role of mechanically-supported emergency percutaneous coronary intervention in cardiogenic shock
Frain, K. & Rees, P., 2020, In: Heart. 106, Suppl 2, p. A36-A36Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review