Dr Imran Ahmad

Dr Imran Ahmad

 

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Imran Ahmad is consultant anaesthetist at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK, where he is the Clinical Lead for Guy’s Hospital. Imran has a specialist interest is difficult airway management and is the clinical lead for airway management at the Trust. Currently he is the Honorary Secretary of the Difficult Airway Society (DAS), one of the largest anaesthetic sub-speciality societies in the UK, with over 3000 members. Imran has been awarded an honorary senior lecturer position by King’s College London, UK.

At our Trust, Imran is the education lead for the airway fellowship and we regularly submit papers which are published in peer reviewed journals such as Anaesthesia and BJA and produce work which is presented at national and international meetings. He has gained a lot of experience in advanced airway procedures, including awake tracheal intubation, videolaryngoscopy, apnoeic oxygenation techniques, tubeless surgery and surgical airways.

Imran has developed an interest in improving airway assessment in patients with difficult airways and have pioneered the use of Virtual Endoscopy in assessment of these patients. We are also developing other novel techniques in airway management such deviceless intubation, the use of alternative devices for awake tracheal intubation and verbal automated cognitive aids for emergency airway management. Imran has successfully been awarded a KHP R&D Challenge Fund Grant of £80,000 to fund a project to develop a robotic-assisted navigational endoscopy system to aid in awake tracheal intubations. 

Imran has contributed to many anaesthesia textbooks, including a BMA award winning difficult airway book and am the co-author for three FRCA exam books. He has over 50 peer-reviewed publications, including the 2015 DAS intubation guidelines, a number of systematic reviews, clinical studies and editorials, resulting in almost 1500 citations to date. I have also been invited by Anaesthesia Journal and the BJA to review a number of submissions. 

Imran is the chairperson of a group commissioned by DAS to develop guidelines on awake tracheal intubations, the publication was officially launched at the World Airway Mananagement Meeting (WAMM2) in Amsterdam in November 2019 and has been published in Anaesthesia Journal. This paper is already in the top 10 highest altmetric scoring papers ever for the journal, currently with an altmetric attention score of 471.

He is the co-author and co-lead for the Intubate COVID study, which has had over 30 citations since its publication earlier this year and an altmetric score of nearly 500.

Last updated 17:48 7.02.2022