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Dr Thangavelautham Suhitharan

Dr Suhitharan Thangavelautham

​MBBS, MMed (Anaesthesiology), EDIC

Senior Consultant

Singapore General Hospital

Specialty: Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care

Clinical Interest: Intensive Care Medicine

Conditions Treated by this Doctor:
Intensive Care Medicine.

Clinical Appointments

  • Senior Consultant Surgical Intensive Care Singapore General HospitalSingapore General Hospital

Profile

Dr Thangavelautham Suhitharan is a Senior Consultant with Department of Surgical Intensive Care, under Division of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at Singapore General Hospital.

Education

  • 2016: Graduate Diploma in Clinical Ultrasound - University of Melbourne, Australia 
  • 2013: Final M Med (Anaesthesiology) - National university of Singapore 
  • 2010: Primary M Med (Anaesthesiology) - National university of Singapore 
  • 2007: MD Anaesthesiology (Part 1A) - Post graduate institute of Sri Lanka 
  • 2005: MBBS - University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

  • Singapore Medical Association, Member 
  • Singapore Society of Anesthesiologist, Member 
  • Sri Lankan Medical Association, Member

Awards

Medical School
  • MB BS - Cumulative results – Honours with Distinction in Forensic Medicine 
  • Clinical sciences Stream – Honours 
  • Applied Sciences Stream –Honours 
  • Introductory Basic Sciences Stream – Honours

Research

  • 2015: Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Singapore; National Investigators for Clinical Epidemiology and Research award 
  • 2015: Duke-National University of Singapore Adjunct research fellow

Research Interests

Publications

Refereed Journals
  • Teoh WH, Lee KM, Suhitharan T, Yahaya Z, Teo MM, Sia AT. Comparison of the LMA Supreme vs the i-gel in paralysed patients undergoing gynaecological laparoscopic surgery with controlled ventilation. Anaesthesia 2010; 65: 1173–9. 
  • Suhitharan T, Teoh WH. Use of extraglottic airways in patients undergoing ambulatory laparoscopic surgery without the need for tracheal intubation. Saudi J Anaesth 2013; 7:436-41. 
  • Suhitharan T, Seevanayagam S, Parker F, Teoh W. Acute unilateral submandibular gland swelling associated with the laryngeal mask airway.Singapore Med J 2013; 54:236–39. 
  • Yi Lin Lee, Thangavelautham Suhitharan, Choy Kuen Leong, Harikrishnan Kothandan. Anaesthetic management for intra-abdominal malignancies with cardiac involvement: A report of two cases and review of literature. Anaesthesia Cases / 2015-0221 / ISSN 2396-8397 
  • Suhitharan T, Pham TP, Chen H, Assam PN, Sultana R, Han NL, Tan EC, Sng BL. Investigating analgesic and psychological factors associated with risk of postpartum depression development: a case–control study. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment 2016;12:1333-9
Abstracts
  • Shahmy, S, Suhitharan T, Sriskandarajah, L, Dawson, A H. Acute Human self-Poisoning with the Substituted Aromatic (Organochlorine) Fungicide Chlorothalonil;Tetrachloroisopthalonitril. Journal of Medical Toxicology;Sep2008, Vol. 4 Issue 3, p205 
  • TPT Pham, HY Chen, EC Tan, T Suhitharan, PN Assam,THA Sia, BL Sng. Investigating analgesic and psychological factors associated with risk of postpartum depression development. Anaesthesia 2015;70:p17 
  • T. Suhitharan and K. Harikrishnan. Anaesthetic management for single stage surgical resection of undifferentiated embryonal sarcoma of liver with cardiac involvement. Anaesthesia 2016;71:p63
Research Experience
  • February 2005 – January 2006: Clinical Research Assistant - South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration (Funded by University of Oxford)
  • Involved in a landmark clinical trial
  • Eddleston M, Eyer P, Worek F, Juszczak E, Alder N, Mohamed F, et al. (2009) Pralidoxime in Acute Organophosphorus Insecticide Poisoning—A Randomised Controlled Trial. PLoS Med 6(6): 
  • 2009: Comparison of the LMA Supreme vs the i-gel in paralysed patients undergoing gynaecological laparoscopic surgery with controlled ventilation 
  • 2010-2011: Use of extraglottic airways in patients undergoing ambulatory laparoscopic surgery without the need for tracheal intubation (Published in Saudi journal of Anaesthesia for publication) 
  • 2011-2014: Effect of Remifentanil with volatile anaesthetic agents on the recovery profile after prolonged surgery - A prospective study- awaiting publication (submitted to Singapore Medical Journal) 
  • 2013/2014: Investigating analgesic and psychological factors associated with risk of postpartum depression development- A Retrospective study 
  • 2014: Effectiveness of simulation training in improving nurse`s knowledge and skills on adult code blue management (A Quality improvement project) 
  • 2015: Strong ion gap as prognostic indicator for patients admitted with shock to intensive care units- A multicentre prospective observational study (Funded by Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Singapore) 
  • 2015: A retrospective analysis of Anaesthetic techniques and haemodynamic control for Functional endoscopic sinus surgery in a Tertiary care centre in Singapore

Research Trials