Dr Deborah Braham Consultant in anaesthesia and cardiothoracic ICU

Background

Dr Deborah Braham attended medical school at Southampton University with an intercalated BSc with first class honours at University College London. Her postgraduate training included a number of years of general medicine and becoming a member of the Royal College of Physicians by examination. This was followed by anaesthetic training at major London teaching hospitals and district general hospitals including University College London Hospitals (UCLH), the Royal Free Hospital, Harefield Hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. She also undertook fellowship posts in cardiothoracic anaesthesia and intensive care units (ICU) at Harefield Hospital, liver transplantation at the Royal Free and obstetric anaesthesia at UCLH. Her training in critical care medicine took place in a variety of ICUs and included general ICU and cardiothoracic ICU, and she gained a Fellowship of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine. Dr Braham trained in transoesophageal echocardiography gaining the US PTEexam (Perioperative TEE) from the US Echoboard. She is also a member of the Academy of Medical Educators.

Expertise

Cardiothoracic anaesthesia, cardiothoracic critical care, anaesthesia for invasive cardiology, anaesthesia for renal transplantation, anaesthesia for endocrine surgery, anaesthesia for fertility procedures, anaesthesia for GI surgery, anaesthesia for gynaecological surgery

Research & publications

Research interests include patient safety and cardiothoracic anaesthesia and ICU:  

Braham, D.L. & Bell, R. (2010) Anaesthetic considerations for caesarean section in a patient with mitochondrial myopathy (complex I and IV deficiency) with respiratory weakness: a case report. International Journal of Obstetric Anaesthesia, 19, S30, 5

Braham, D., Eccles, D., Primrose, J.N., et al. (1997) Deletion of the transforming growth factor beta receptor type II and replication error positive colorectal cancer. British Journal of Cancer, 75, Suppl 1, 28, 6

Braham, D.L., Patel, N., Bell, R., Coloumb, M. & Fernando, R. (2010) Maternal and fetal effects of starvation times before spinal anaesthesia for elective caesarean section. International Journal of Obstetric Anaesthesia, 19, S28, 4

Braham, D.L., Pearce, A.L. & Malik, I.S. (2013) Application of the WHO surgical safety checklist outside the operating theatre: medicine can learn from surgery. Clinical Medicine, 14, 506-509  

Christie, L.E., Ansari, U., Cohen, M. & Braham, D.L. (2012) Hyperthermia post cardiac surgery, an analysis of incidence and risk factors. Applied Pulmonary Pathophysiology,16 Suppl 1, 228-3

Coleman, M.G., Gough, A.C., Bunyan, D.J., Braham, D., et al. (2001) Minisatellite instability is found in colorectal tumours with mismatch repair deficiency. British Journal of Cancer, 85,10, 1486-91

Richardson, A., Schutzer-Weissmann, J., Braham, D. (2014) Implementation of a modified WHO checklist for the cardiac catheterisation laboratory - a complete audit cycle. Applied Cardiopulmonary Pathophysiology 13,Suppl 1,33 

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