During my career in Anaesthesia and Pain, I’ve participated in various research activities

Do Epidermolysis Bullosa Simplex patients have neuropathic pain?

This research is in its initial stages and will start soon.

COPERS STUDY-( 2011 to date) COping with Persistent pain, Effectiveness Research into Self-management was a multicentre study in Warwick University and I was a co-investigator. Our overall aim is to develop a method to improve the quality of life, clinical and social outcomes, and reduce the health care resource use, of people living with chronic, non-malignant pain, specifically via a self-management programme derived from a modified, condition specific, version of the Expert Patients Programme.

• The objectives were to develop a new self-management programme and to evaluate its effectiveness and cost-effectiveness
• I worked in this project as a co-investigator and my role was to recruit patients.

‘PICASO Study’ (2011 to date) ‘Pain; Improving Communication, Assessment and Satisfaction in Consultants.’

• Conclusions and Actions: ‘PICASO Study’ was a Research Project in Warwick University.  I will be providing expert advice and liaising with the research assistant during data collection at Warwick Hospital. I will be involved in designing and implementing the intervention with an aim to develop a package that will improve patient care within the chronic pain service. I will also offer feedback to consultants on their consultation skills.
• If funded the project would have started in September 2012.I was involved in this project in its initial phase.  

Research as a Fellow in Pain Management (Sep08-Sep09)

• Being a part of the research team as a Clinical Research Fellow in Pain, I submitted ‘A Study of Neuropathic Pain in certain inherited conditions’ to the Ethics Committee for approval under the supervision of the research lead. This was a multicentre pilot study which was to be followed by a two-year project. These patients would be compared to patients in a control group. They would be asked to fill in several questionnaires related to disability, mood and pain. Clinical and laboratory studies to look for neuropathic pain would also form part of the research.

Research Fellow in the Department of Science and Technology in Medicine, Keele University (Feb08-Aug08)

• I investigated ‘The Pulse Transit Time as an index of Cerebrovascular Function’. This was a laboratory based study on healthy volunteers and looked into the pulse transit time to the middle cerebral artery (MCA) with different interventions such as induction of hypercapnia and hypoxia. It was observed that both interventions shortened the pulse transit time to the MCA suggesting that there was a stiffening of this vessel. This was the first study to investigate the pulse transit time in cerebral circulation and was presented in the Anaesthetic Research Society meeting in London in Nov 08 and the abstract was published in the BJA.
• Title: Use of pulse transit time as an index of cerebrovascular function
  Author(s): Tewani, M; Corfield. Source: BRITISH JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA   Volume:102 Issue: 4   Pages: 573-574   Published: 2009

Dissertation for MD Training, Mumbai, India (Feb94-Dec1995)

• As part of my MD Anaesthesia I had written a dissertation which was accepted by the University of Mumbai. It was a randomised and controlled study on ‘A comparative study of the haemodynamic changes during laryngeal mask insertion and endotracheal intubation after the induction of general anaesthesia’ in the Indian Naval Hospital, Mumbai. 50 adult ASA I and II patients undergoing General Surgery, Gynaecological or Orthopaedic surgeries were selected. The study showed a significant rise in blood-pressure and heart rates in patients in the endotracheal group and not in the laryngeal mask group.