Contact information
Colleges
Websites
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Drakesmith Group: Iron and Immunity
Research Group
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Murphy, Roberts and Stanworth Group: Oxford Clinical Research in Transfusion Medicine
Research Group
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Critical Care Research Group
Research Group
Akshay Shah
BMedSci (Hons), BM BS, MSc, DipHRes, MRCP, FRCA, DPhil
NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer
- NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Intensive Care Medicine
- Honorary Specialty Registrar in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care
I am a NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Intensive Care Medicine working across both Nuffield Division of Clinical Neurosciences and NHS Blood & Transplant.
In 2017, I was awarded a NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship to undertake a DPhil which I completed in 2021. The focus of the DPhil was on investigating the epidemiology and mechanisms of anaemia in survivors of critical illness and and potential the role of intravenous iron as a treatment strategy. I was awarded the Intensive Care Society Rising Star Gold Medal award for this work in December 2021.
During my DPhil I also undertook the prestigious Anaesthesia Trainee Editor Fellowship and contributed to international guidelines on transfusion strategies in non-bleeding with the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.
My main research interests are in the haematological aspects of critical illness and perioperative medicine, in particular:
(i) Improving the detection management of anaemia secondary to iron deficiency and/or inflammation across a range of settings including primary care, acute illness and surgery.
(ii) Establishing the risk benefit profile of commonly used interventions to prevent bleeding in critically ill patients (e.g. prophylactic platelet transfusions) and to better understand platelet function in patients undergoing major vascular surgery
(iii) To develop a platform for further studies using efficient data linkage of routinely collected healthcare from transfusion, primary care, critical care and perioperative medicine databases from the collaborations have developed with these specialities.
Recent publications
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Fatigue after CriTical illness (FACT): Co-production of a self-management intervention to support people with fatigue after critical illness.
Journal article
Brown SE. et al, (2024), Intensive Crit Care Nurs, 82
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Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: implications for anaesthesia
Journal article
Shah A. et al, (2024), BJA Education
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Iron and erythropoietin to heal and recover after intensive care (ITHRIVE): A pilot randomised clinical trial
Journal article
Litton E. et al, (2023), Critical Care and Resuscitation, 25, 201 - 206
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Red Blood Cell Transfusion in the Intensive Care Unit.
Journal article
Raasveld SJ. et al, (2023), JAMA, 330, 1852 - 1861
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Harnessing the potential of data-driven strategies to optimise transfusion practice.
Journal article
Evans HG. et al, (2023), Br J Haematol
ORCID
0000-0002-1869-2231