Professional background

Dr Victoria Tidman MBBS BSc MRCP FRCA FFPMRCA qualified from UCL in 2005 and trained as an anaesthetist at Barts and the London School of Anaesthesia. She now works as a consultant in anaesthesia and pain management at UCLH and is an independent practitioner in abdominopelvic pain and has a specialist interest in complex pain patient management.

She has spent time in Rwanda training healthcare professionals and helping to set up the first multidisciplinary pain service. Currently she is chairperson of the specialist interest group for Pain in Developing Countries for the British Pain Society. She is an hononary clinical teaching fellow at UCL and is module lead for MSc in Pain.

Publications

  • Baseline measures for women with mesh complications accessing a pain service (as part of the London Complex Mesh Centre)Anish ThillainathanJulia CambitiziVictoria TidmanKatrine PetersenMoein Tavakkoli, and Andrew Paul Baranowski Volume 18, Issue 1
  • https://doi.org/10.1177/2049463723120
  • Eur Urol Focus Myofascial Pelvic Pain: Best Orientation and Clinical Practice. Position of the European Association of Urology Guidelines Panel on Chronic Pelvic Pain Pedro Abreu-Mendes 1, Andrew P Baranowski 2, Bary Berghmans 3, Jan Borovicka 4, Angela M Cottrell 5, Paulo Dinis-Oliveira 6, Sohier Elneil 7, John Hughes 8, Bert E J Messelink 9, Victoria Tidman 7, Rui Pinto 6, Jure Tornic 10, Ida Flink 11, Brian A Parsons 5, Valentin Zumstein 12, Daniel S Engeler 12 Affiliations expand PMID: 35945131  DOI: 10.1016/j.euf.2022.07.007
  • Patient perceptions and recall of consent for regional anaesthesia compared with consent for surgery (JRSM-15-0153) Accepted to Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. August 2015 RNOH. R Zarnegar, M Brown, M Henley, V Tidman and A Pathmanathan
  • Letter to anaesthesia. Comments on ‘Femoral nerve block for pain relief in hip fracture: a dose finding study’ M. Watson, E. Waler, S Rowell, M. Lumsden, M. Higgins. A. Binning, A. McConnachie. Anaesthesia 9, Issue 7, pages 683–686, July 2014. Su Anaesthesia. 2014 Dec;69(12):1403-4. doi: 10.1111/anae.12853.
  • ‘Opioids in developing countries - Promoting appropriate use and preventing abuse in low- and middle-income countries’ Article - March 2019 issue of “Pain News” (BPS)
  • Bad Backs and Silverbacks: establishing the first pain management service in Rwanda. Article published in Pain News - Newsletter for the Spring Edition BPS 2015.
  • Improving Global Access to Opioids: the view from the ground – Contributing author. Article published Pain News - Newsletter for the Spring Edition BPS 2015.
  • Chapter submission for “100 landmark papers in Pain” commissioned by Oxford University Press. Critical evaluation of “Epidural morphine in treatment of pain. Behar et al. Lancet. 1979;1(8115):527-9.”


Abstracts

  • Bad backs and Silverbacks: A qualitative study into a trainee's experience of developing and sustaining a pain service in Rwanda.Anaesthesia. 2015 Jun;70 Suppl 3:1-101. doi: 10.1111/anae.13137. 172
  • Pain & analgesia in Rwanda military hospital- assessment of post-surgical pain relief. British Journal of Pain April 2015 9: 5-75, doi:10.1177/2049463715579924 097.
  • Acute pain management training at Rwanda military hospital- effectiveness of a 5 day intensive programme.British Journal of Pain April 2015 9: 5-75, doi:10.1177/2049463715579924 028
  • First chronic pain clinic in Rwanda: a comparison of demographics and case mix with European data.British Journal of Pain April 2015 9: 5-75, doi:10.1177/2049463715579924 035
  • Improving the Value of Discharge Summaries Sent Out To General Practitioners after A Multidisciplinary Pain Management ProgrammeBritish Journal of Pain April 2014 8: 5-72, doi:10.1177/2049463714527262 084
  • Provisions of anaesthetic services in interventional radiology- a national survey.Special Issue: Abstracts of the AAGBI Annual Congress, Dublin October 2013 Volume 68, Issue Supplement s3. 155 DOI: 10.1111/anae.12458
  • Retrospective evaluation of the efficacy of the use of the Versatis patch in chronic pain conditions other than post-herpetic neuralgia.Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine 2013 Sep-Oct;38(5 Suppl 1):E1-E259. doi: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e3182a6a39d. 0440.
  • Laproscopic Learning Curves AH Engledow VJ Tidman SM Thomas MJ Tutton SJ WarrenSurg Endosc. 2007 Apr;21 Suppl 13:S1-294.
  • Patients’ Attitudes to the Appearance of their SurgeonAH Engledow VJ Tidman J Wright SJ WarrenAnn R Coll Surg Engl. 2006 Jan;88(1):57-61. General 10996