OSCCA Staff Profiles

Sumayer Sanghera

Email address: Sumayer.Sanghera@sth.nhs.uk

Qualifications:

MBChB, FRCA, BSc Hons (pharmacolcogy)

Position within the Trust: Regional Adviser

Other posts (e.g. membership of specialist bodies etc):

Preoperative Society, Vascular Anaesthetic Society

Brief overview of Research Background/ activity:

Anaemia in preoperative patients
PI for PREVENTT –Preoperative anaemia –double blind randomised control looking at iv iron vs placebo – in major open abdominal surgery (October 2013 provisionally)
Arm and ankle blood pressure measurement during caesarean section
Spinal Diamorphine and caesarean section
Opiate receptors in the spinal cord (pharmacology research during the degree).
QUIPP For Elective AAA Repair with Dr Alastair Glossop
Audit of Enhanced recovery of primary joint replacements

Grants/ studies:

Principle Investigator for Sheffield for Preoperative intravenous iron to treat anaemia in major surgery (PREVENTT- NIHR AND NATA) – one of the highest recruiters in the study for this CTIMP

Principle Investigator for Sheffield for ISOS

Principle Investigator for Sheffield for POPULAR

Invited lectures:

Spinal Diamorphine – oral presentation at the Obstetric Anaesthetists Association as a trainee

Significant publications:

Analgesia mediated by Kappa receptors. European Journal of Anaesthesia, Vol 8 pp227-231, 1991 Goodchild CS, Sanghera S, Serrao JM and Gent JP.
“Local anaesthetic loss during simulated spinal anaesthesia” Anaesthesia 54(6) 613-614 1999. Sanghera S and Park GR.
“Arm and ankle blood pressure during caesarean section” Vol 15, (1) 24-27 Jan 2006 Sanghera S, North A, Abernethy S and Wrench I
“Dose response to spinal diamorphine in the presence of regular NSAID Therapy – a study in patients undergoing caesarean section.” International Journal of Obstetric Anaesthesia 2007 p17-21