Mr Tom Routledge, Consultant Thoracic Surgeon

Mr Tom Routledge

Consultant Thoracic Surgeon

Mr Tom Routledge MA (Cantab) BM BCh (Oxon) FRCS CTh

Consultant Thoracic Surgeon

MA (Cantab) BM BCh (Oxon) FRCS CTh

Mr Tom Routledge

Consultant Thoracic Surgeon MA (Cantab) BM BCh (Oxon) FRCS CTh

MA (Cantab) BM BCh (Oxon) FRCS CTh

Areas of expertise

  • Surgical treatment of tumours of the lungs, thymus and mediastinum, chest wall
  • Pulmonary lobectomy and segmentectomy
  • Multi disciplinary lung cancer treatment
  • Robotic sympathectomy for hyperhidrosis (including highly selective sympathectomy)
  • Thoracic outlet syndrome and robotic 1st rib resection
  • Pneumothorax surgery
  • Novel techniques for chest wall and rib cage surgical repair - spot-traumatic, rib fractures
  • Surgical treatment for endometriosis in the chest - robotic

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  • London Bridge Hospital

    27 Tooley Street , London, SE1 2PR

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About Mr Tom Routledge

GMC number: 4431417

Year qualified: 1997

Place of primary qualification: Oxford University

Thomas Routledge received scholarships for medical science while attending medical schools at Cambridge and Oxford Universities. He received his medical education in Cambridge, London, and New York. He is the Chief of Thoracic Surgery at Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospitals, where he was recruited as a Consultant in Thoracic Surgery in 2007. He presently serves as the principal thoracic surgeon and co-director of the multidisciplinary lung cancer team at HCA London Bridge Hospital.

Working as a technical developer and advisor for Intuitive Surgical and the DaVinci robotic system, he has been at the forefront of developing minimally invasive robotic surgery. He has created methods that enable the majority of his patients to take use of this more delicate and accurate method of performing surgery, expanding the technology's applicability to a variety of circumstances and conditions. While Mr. Routledge places a high priority on the patient experience and assistance for patients' families during the trying period that comes with any surgical treatment, he has created a team at London Bridge Hospital and throughout HCA London to accomplish this.

Areas of expertise

  • Lung cancer
  • Mesothelioma resections
  • Minimally invasive surgery including VATS lobectomy
  • Multi disciplinary lung cancer treatment
  • Novel techniques for chest wall and rib cage surgical repair - spot-traumatic, rib fractures
  • Pneumothorax surgery
  • Pulmonary lobectomy and segmentectomy
  • Reconstruction of developmental chest wall abnormalities (pectus excavatum)
  • Robotic sympathectomy for hyperhidrosis (including highly selective sympathectomy)
  • Surgical treatment of tumours of the lungs, thymus and mediastinum, chest wall
  • Surgical treatment for endometriosis in the chest - robotic
  • Synthes rib matrix
  • Thoracic (lung) surgery
  • Thoracic oncology
  • Thoracic outlet syndrome and robotic 1st rib resection
  • Thoracoscopy or VATS
  • Tracheobronchial cancer
  • VATS sympathectomy

Professional memberships

General Medical Council

Articles by Mr Tom Routledge

Successful exclusion of a large bronchopleural fistula using an Amplatzer II vascular plug and glue embolization

What is the best treatment of postpneumonectomy empyema?

Comparison of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery and open surgery in the management of primary empyema

Novel use of endoluminal repair as prophylaxis of aortic rupture secondary to radiotherapy for lung cancer

Recurrent pleural effusion in yellow nail syndrome successfully treated with video-assisted thoracic surgery

Thoracoscopic lobectomy: is a training program feasible with low postoperative morbidity?

Does previous surgical training impact the learning curve in video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy for trainees?

In minor and major thoracic procedures is uniport superior to multiport video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery?

Preclinical evaluation of Versius, an innovative device for use in robot-assisted thoracic surgery

Risks and rewards of the surgical treatment of lung cancer in octogenarians

Retrospective observational study into the early causes of death following surgery for NSCLC

New-onset atrial fibrillation after anatomic lung resection

Prognostic factors including lymphovascular invasion on survival for resected non-small cell lung cancer

Are there recognized prognostic factors for patients undergoing pulmonary metastasectomy for colorectal carcinoma?

Is the learning curve for video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy affected by prior experience in open lobectomy?