Physician · Educator · Author

Pete Lax

Anaesthesia · Critical Care · Trauma · PHEM

Consultant anaesthetist, intensivist and pre-hospital emergency medicine physician working across trauma, resuscitation, aeromedical retrieval and transfer medicine.

Profile

Pete Lax is an anaesthetist, intensivist and pre-hospital emergency medicine physician whose clinical and academic work centres on the care of critically ill and injured patients.

His career has spanned civilian, military and academic healthcare systems in the United Kingdom and United States, including trauma anaesthesia, intensive care, HEMS, critical-care retrieval and transfer, remote and austere medicine, and major-incident response.

His military medical career with the Royal Air Force Medical Services has included the Critical Care Air Support Team, providing aeromedical retrieval and transfer on strategic and tactical platforms.

MB ChB (Hons) · FRCA · FCICM · FIMC

Current roles

Johns Hopkins

Assistant Professor
Director of Trauma Anesthesiology
Medical Control Chief, Major Incident Command

Clinical practice

Anaesthesia · Critical Care · Trauma · Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine

Teaching & academic work

Trauma and acute resuscitation, anaesthesia and critical care, pre-hospital and retrieval medicine, TIVA/TCI, human factors and multidisciplinary team performance.

Selected publications

Selected work. Full academic record in the CV and ORCID.

Book

Textbook of Acute Trauma Care

Editor. Springer, 2022.

Clinical education

iTIVA: A Practical Guide for TCI & TIVA

Version 1. Zenodo, 2026.

Review

Training for major incidents

Porthouse A, Clancy H, Lax P. Surgery, 2024.

Review

Vasopressors and inotropes in neurotrauma

Lax P, Dagal A. Current Anesthesiology Reports, 2018.

Lecture resources

Teaching resources are being added.

References, further reading and supporting material for selected talks will live here at stable URLs, allowing lecture QR codes to remain useful as the material is updated.

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