Bramah N. Singh (3 March 1938 – 20 September 2014) was a cardiac pharmacologist and academic.

Early life and education

Born in Fiji, he graduated in medicine from

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(New Zealand) in 1963 and completed residency at

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, followed by a cardiology fellowship at Greenlane Hospital. In 1969, Singh was awarded a Nuffield travelling fellowship and moved to Oxford to work with

Miles Vaughan Williams (Edward) Miles Vaughan Williams (8 August 1918 – 31 August 2016) was a British cardiac pharmacologist and academic. He is best known for the Vaughan Williams classification of antidysrhythmic drugs. From 1955 to 1985, he was a Fellow of Hertford ...

. There, he worked on the anti-arrhythmic properties of drugs including

amiodarone Amiodarone is an antiarrhythmic medication used to treat and prevent a number of types of cardiac dysrhythmias. This includes ventricular tachycardia (VT), ventricular fibrillation (VF), and wide complex tachycardia, as well as atrial fibril ...

. Such work helped to refine the characteristics of Class III compounds in the developing

Vaughan Williams classification Antiarrhythmic agents, also known as cardiac dysrhythmia medications, are a group of pharmaceuticals that are used to suppress abnormally fast rhythms ( tachycardias), such as atrial fibrillation, supraventricular tachycardia and ventricular ta ...

Career

Some reviews on antidysrhythmic drugs during his lifetime credited his work in developing the classification system equally with Vaughan Williams, leading to the classification sometimes being called the Singh Vaughan Williams classification.

References

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