Dr Kwok Fan Yin

Condition Treated:

• Providing general and regional anaesthesia, analgesia and/or sedation for patients undergoing surgery in the operating theatre and procedures outside the operating room.
• Providing support in the treatment of critically ill patients

Procedure Performed:

• Peripheral venous cannulation
• Arterial cannulation
• Airway management - endotracheal intubation, supraglottic airway insertion, fibreoptic bronchoscopic guided intubation
• Central venous cannulation
• Central neuroaxial blockade - spinal and epidural
• Peripheral nerve blocks (ultrasound guided) for upper limb, lower limb and trunk
• Chest tube insertion

Medical School:

• University of Malaya (UM)

Post Graduate Qualifications:

• M.Med Anaes (UM - University Malaya)
• FANZCA (Fellowship of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists)

Clinical Training:

• Anaesthesia for elective and emergency general surgery
• Anaesthesia for orthopedic surgery and trauma
• Neuroanaesthesia
• Anaesthesia for interventional radiology
• Anaesthesia for ENT, ophthalmology, dental, urology, gynaecology and plastic surgery
• Anaesthesia in remote locations e.g MRI, radiotherapy and ECT
• Obstetrics anaesthesia and labour analgesia
• Paediatric anaesthesia
• Anaesthesia for vascular surgery
• Cardiac anaesthesia
• Intensive Care
• Pain management

Collective experience of all the above during years as an anaesthetic medical officer before entering the post-graduate programme and as a masters/FANZCA trainee in anaesthesia

Memberships & Associations:

• Member of Malaysian Society of Anaesthesiologists
• Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists
• Member of the College of Anaesthesiologists, Academy of Medicine Malaysia
• Examiner for the College of Anaesthetists of Ireland for MCAI/FCAI

Awards:

• Excellent service award (2007) – Hospital Kuala Lumpur.
• Padmarajah Award (2012) – Top scorer for the Final M.Med Anaesthesiology (University Malaya)
• Excellent service award (2015) – Hospital Kuala Lumpur.
• Excellent service award (2020) – Hospital Kuala Lumpur.

Media & Publications:

• FY Kwok, S Venugobal. The effect of prophylactic phenylephrine on systemic hypotension during induction of anaesthesia with propofol in patients over 55 years old. Med J Malaysia Vol 71 No4 August 2016
• Kwok FY, Hui MT, Thomas Joseph C, Hanim Binti Mohamad A, Bakhtiar MF. Perioperative anaphylaxis in Malaysia: A nine-year retrospective study. Anaesth Intensive Care. 2025 Feb 4:310057X241284655. Doi10.1177/0310057X241284655.