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

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. In 1969, Singh was awarded a Nuffield travelling fellowship and moved to Oxford to work with Miles Vaughan Williams. 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, ventricular fibrillation, and wide complex tachycardia, atrial fibrillation, and paroxys ...

. 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 class of drugs that are used to suppress abnormally fast rhythms (tachycardias), such as atrial fibrillation, supraventricular tachycardia and ventricular tachycardia. M ...

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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