Dr Thangavelautham Suhitharan

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

• 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

• 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
  

• 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
  

• 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