Dr Cain has specialist clinical interests in the following areas: • Critical care medicine • Anaesthesia • Sepsis • Perioperative medicine • Echocardiography • Intubation • Line insertion • Bronchoscopy • Percutaneous tracheostomy • Organ donation • End of life care • Infection control • Transfer medicine • Airway management

Anaesthesia (general, spinal, epidural & local) • Awareness during anaesthesia • Injury & complications during anaesthesia • Patient safety • Problems with tracheal intubation • Pre-operative assessment & preparation • Post-operative care & complications • Medical negligence involving anaesthesia • Research involving anaesthesia • Anaesthetic equipment • Regional (nerve block) anaesthesia • Nerve injuries in the perioperative period • Allergic reactions during anaesthesia • Standard of care in anaesthesia

All common/general ear, nose and sinus conditions (not paediatric) • ENT and airway emergencies • Head and neck, facial and airway trauma/injury, including tracheostomy • Voice and swallowing problems • Thyroid and parathyroid surgery • Head and neck lump/cancer diagnostics and surgery • Robotic and endoscopic head and neck and thyroid surgery • I have a special expertise in thyroid cancer and thyroid surgery, as well as complex head and neck problems