Keith Sykes (anaesthetist)

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Professor Sir Keith Sykes
FFARCS
Born
Malcolm Keith Sykes

(1925-09-13)13 September 1925[1]
Clevedon, Somerset, England
Died17 November 2019(2019-11-17) (aged 94)
Dorset, England
Resting placeExeter, England
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Spouse
Michelle June Ratcliffe
(m. 1956)

Sir Malcolm Keith Sykes

anaesthetist
.

Early life and education

Sykes was born in

Magdalene College, Cambridge, then underwent training in anaesthetics while serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and at University College Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.[4]

Career

In 1958, he joined the Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith Hospital as a lecturer in anaesthesia and consultant anaesthetist, becoming a reader there in 1967 and a professor of clinical anaesthesia in 1970.[4]

He joined the University of Oxford as Nuffield professor of anaesthetics in 1980 and became an Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College in 1996.[4]

He is the author of books about the clinical measurement, treatment of respiratory failure, and the history of anaesthesia.[4]

A 1997 interview with him, by Lady Wendy Ball, is in Oxford Brookes' Medical Sciences Video Archive, catalogue number MSVA159.[4][5]

He was

Honorary Fellow of the College of Anaesthetists of South Africa (HonFCA (SA)).[4]

References

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  2. ^ Sykes
  3. ^ "Obituary: Dr. Joseph Sykes โ€“ Economics and banking". The Times.
  4. ^
    Wikidata Q29581786
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  5. ^ "Professor Sir Keith Sykes". Oxford Brookes University. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  6. ^ "No. 52563". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 1991. pp. 1โ€“28.

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