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M.D. (Hons)

MMED (University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town)

FCA (SA)

Anaesthesiology and critical care.

Special interest in acute pain management, obstetric, vascular, trauma, regional and cardiothoracic anaesthesia.

9 years of experience in Anaesthesia and Critical Care.

Specialist training done at tertiary hospital in Cape town: Tygerberg hospital.

Worked at multiple other hospitals in Cape Town including Karl Bremer Hospital, Khayelistsha hospital and Eerste River hospital.

Worked at Jeetoo Hospital and Flacq Hospital, Mauritius as Anaesthesiologist.

Worked at the Biomedical Research Institute (BMRI) Stellenbosch University, Cape Town as research clinician investigator

Member of the Association of Anaesthesiologists of Mauritius

Member of the South African Society of Anaesthesiologists

Member of PainSA (chapter of the International Association for the Study of Pain)

Fellow of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA)

Dr. Mathoorah is committed to providing quality and compassionate perioperative anaesthetic care and motivated to apply evidence-based guidelines during her work. She has particular focus on acute pain management and special interest in obstetric, vascular, trauma, regional and cardiothoracic anaesthesia.

She has had extensive exposure to cutting edge technology in South Africa, while providing anaesthetic care during robotic surgery, laparoscopic cases, renal transplant, combined ENT and plastic surgery, spine surgery, major neurosurgical cases, cardio-thoracic cases requiring cardio-pulmonary bypass, lung isolation and more recently ECMO.

In terms of ICU experience, she has worked in the cardio-thoracic ICU, surgical ICU, medical ICU, COVID ICU. She has also managed patients in burns ICU as well as neurosurgical ICU.

Proficient in transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography, ultrasound guided regional anaesthesia, awake fibreoptic intubation, one lung ventilation techniques.

Experience as a research investigator clinician on multiple projects in the divisions of pulmonology, molecular biology and human genetics at the biomedical research institute of Stellenbosch university (SA).