Infectious Diseases Specialist

• bone infections
• HIV
• pneumonia
• viral hepatitis (inflammation of the liver)

The role is rapidly changing due to:

• an increase in resistance to antibiotics
• an increase in the severity of infections particularly in an ageing and more frail population
• the growing popularity of global travel heightening the need for expertise in the prevention and treatment of ‘international’ diseases

You’ll regularly deliver:

• drug prescription
• insertion of a central venouscatheter– a thin flexible hollow tube is inserted into a large vein for the introduction of fluids including medication
• lumbar puncture- a hollow needle is inserted into the lower part of the spinal canal to withdraw cerebrospinal fluid for diagnosis or to inject medication
• sigmoidoscopy (examination of part of the intestine using a very small camera)