Dr James Vincent Mitchell
Personal Details
Dr James Vincent Mitchell MBBS FFARCS MRCS LRCP DA
25/04/1917 to 11/06/1983
Place of birth: Hartismere, Suffolk
Nationality: British
CRN: 715597
Education and qualifications
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General education |
Weymouth College; Middlesex Hospital Medical School |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
MBBS, London, 1940 |
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Initial Fellowship and type |
FFARCS by Election |
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Year of Fellowship |
1952 |
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Other qualification(s) |
MRCS LRCP, 1940; DA(RCP&S), 1941 |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
Early appointments were as house surgeon & casualty officer and house anaesthetist at the Radcliffe Infirmary, He joined the RAFVR in 1942, serving for some time in Burma and becoming an anaesthetic specialist before returning to the Nuffield Department as assistant in 1947. Appointed a consultant in 1948, initially to the Radcliffe, later to the United Oxford Hospitals, he also became clinical lecturer to the University. He retired in 1979.
Professional interests and activities
In 1952 he published (reference below) details of his eponymous needle, an early device for reliable indwelling venous access only bettered once disposable items became available. His other major contribution was as Regional Educational Advisor for the Faculty (1969-79) during which time the training of anaesthetists in the region was re-organised and updated. He was an examiner for the DA from 1974.
Other biographical information
Married Peggy Bliss, and they had four sons & two daughters.
Author and Sources
Author: Prof Tony Wildsmith
Sources and any other comments: Ancestry.co.uk | Archives of University College, London | Medical Directory | Beinhart J. A History of the Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, Oxford 1937-1987 OUP, 1987. ISBN 0-19-261648-X (Plate 9 shows Mitchell working in wartime conditions). | Mitchell JV. Self-sealing intravenous needle. Anaesthesia 1952; 7: 258-9