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2024/01/25
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Dr Poon Keah How

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Designations:

  • Senior Consultant, Department of Anaesthesia, National University Hospital

Qualifications:

M.B.B.S (Singapore), MMed (Anaesthesia)

Specialties/Sub-specialties:

Anaesthesiology

Clinical Disciplines/Programmes:

Obstetric Anaesthesia, Pain Management, Regional Anaesthesia

Special Interests:

Pain Management, Regional Anaesthesia, Obstetric Anaesthesia

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Dr Poon is a Consultant Anaesthetist in the Department of Anaesthesia, National University Hospital (NUH). He completed a one-year Pain Fellowship in Oxford Pain Relief Unit and St Thomas’ Hospital, London, in 2005. He has been involved in the care of acute, chronic and cancer pain patients in NUHS for over 10 years. His clinical interests include the use of pharmacological, non-pharmacological and interventional techniques in a multidisciplinary setting for the management of pain.

Dr Poon is currently the department's Director of Clinical Services. He is also a Clinician Educator for Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Besides undergraduate teaching, he is involved in postgraduate examination for the Master of Medicine (Anaesthesia).


Journals & Publications

  1. Ng JJ, Leong WQ, Tan CS, Poon KH, Lomanto D, So JBY, Shabbir A.
    A Multimodal Analgesic Protocol reduces opioid-related adverse events and improves patient outcomes in laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy.
    Obes Surg. 2017 Dec;27(12):3075-3081
  2. Hong CC, Wang SM, Nather A, Tan JH, Tay SH, Poon KH
    Chlorhexidine Anaphylaxis Masquerading as Septic Shock
    Int Arch Allergy Immunol 2015;167:16-20
  3. Saito T, Wong ZW, Thinn KK, Poon KH, Liu E
    Review of critical incidents in a university department of anaesthesia
    Anaesth Intensive Care 2015 Mar;43(2):238-43
  4. Lee YZ, Lee RQ, Thinn KK, Poon KH, Liu E
    How patients fare after anaesthesia for elective surgery: a survey of postoperative nausea and vomiting, pain and confusion
    Singapore Med J. 2015 Jan; 56(1):40-6.
  5. Poon KH, Lee TL
    Personalised and precision pain medicine – a dream coming true?
    Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2013 Oct;42(10):545-6.

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