Stuart Hamilton a Consultant Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeon at St John’s Hospital, Livingston, UK, where he provides routine hand surgery, complex post-trauma reconstruction, laser surgery for vascular lesions, pigmented lesions including tattoos, and skin resurfacing, as well as assisting with the major head and neck surgery workload and the cleft service.
Stuart undertook extensive multi-specialty training in Glasgow and in England prior to going into plastic surgery. He started plastic surgery in 1995 working in Swansea, then spent two years in Cambridge before returning North, first to Dundee and then Edinburgh.
JOURNALS REVIEWED: CLINICS OF PLASTIC SURGERY and ANNALS OF PLASTIC SURGERY – Oct 2013 - Jan 2015
Latest Contribution
Caring for our patients: postoperative nausea and vomiting
This review article cites as its basis ‘The Consensus Guidelines for Managing Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting’, an international panel of experts’ evidence-based opinions, and the IMPACT Study. The pathophysiology, risk factors, and strategies for reducing postoperative nausea and vomiting (POVN)...
A plea for reconstructive plastic surgery in the routine care of sarcoma patients
The authors from the Mayo Clinic demonstrate the advantage of early intervention by plastic surgeons in the care of patients with sarcoma. A retrospective case study review looks at the wound complication rate of surgery for those patients who have...
Do the benefits of scaphoidectomy and four-corner fusion for SLAC last?
The paper concisely covers the history and definition of scapholunate advanced collapse (SLAC) wrist. The treatments options are described in broad terms and referenced. Forty patients’ records are assessed retrospectively; their data having been collected prospectively in a structured and...
