OSCCA Staff Profiles
Dr Karen Kerr
E-mail: karen.kerr2@sth.nhs.uk Consultant General Anaesthetist Qualifications and Background: MBChB, FRCA |
Areas of expertise
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing
Pre-operative exercise training
Vascular surgery
Current Research Interests
Exercise training prior to surgery to improve outcomes
Patient reluctance to engage with exercise peri-operatively
Using CPET to predict outcome
Recording outcomes
Other
Co-Author on the successful RfPB proposal; High-intensity Interval exercise Training before Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm repair (HIT-AAA): a randomised controlled feasibility trial
Elected committee member of the Vascular Anaesthetic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
POETTS – education committee role
Member of the pre-operative society, BSET, AAGBI and RcoA
Recent Publications
Randomized feasibility trial of high-intensity interval training before elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. Tew GA, Batterham AM, Colling K, Gray J, Kerr K, Kothmann E, Nawaz S, Weston M, Yates D and Danjoux G. BJS 2017; 104: 1791–1801.
Prediction of critical care complication type following open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair using novel aspects of cardiopulmonary exercise testing. Walne M, Kerr K, Mills GH. BJA: British Journal of Anaesthesia, Volume 119, Issue 2, 1 August 2017, Pages e21–e30.
Patients awaiting surgical repair for large abdominal aortic aneurysms can exercise at moderate to hard intensities with a low risk of adverse events. Weston M, Batterham AM, Tew GA, Kothmann E, Kerr K, Nawaz S, Yates D and Danjoux G. Frontiers in Physiology 2017 Volume 7 article 684. DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2016.00684
High-intensity interval exercise training before abdominal aortic aneurysm repair (HIT-AAA): protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial. Tew GA, Weston M, Kothmann E, Batterham AM, Gray J, Kerr K, Martin D, Nawaz S, Yates D and Danjoux G. BMJ Open 2014;4:e004094.
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing and elective open abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery over a 6-year period in a UK teaching hospital. Raithatha A, Smith S, Tridente A, Chakrabarti K, Kerr K. Critical Care 2012, 16(Suppl 1):P467.