Dr Willem Jacobus Van Der Merwe - Anaesthetist

M.B.Ch.B. (US) 2006
M.Med (Anaes) (Stell) 2015
FCA (SA) 2015

Private Practice - July 2015 till current.
Partner in Drs Lochner & Associate Anaesthetists, Vredenburg since June 2015 working mostly at Life West Coast Private Hospital.

Before 2015:
Internship, Dihlabeng Regional Hospital (Bethlehem) - 2007 and 2008
Community Service, Oudtshoorn Hospital - 2009
Medical Officer in Department Internal Medicine, Karl Bremer Hospital - 2010 till June 2011
Clinical Assistant in Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Tygerberg Hospital - July 2011 till June 2015.

Services provided by our practice:

1. Conscious sedation, general and regional anesthetic techniques for minor and mayor surgical procedures.
2. Facilitating perioperative management of surgical patients, including pre-operative assesments, post-operative intensive care and general ward management.
3. Pain management of acute, chronic and maternal pain.
4. Involvement with resuscitation of unstable patients, including airway management.
5. Basic echocardiography.