About Doctor:

Dr. Ganshyam Jagathkar is a Director of Critical Care at Medicover Hospitals, Hitech city. He is a nationally acclaimed intensive care specialist with over 18 years of experience in this speciality. He was one of the first fully trained and qualified intensive care specialists from the twin Telugu states who played a major role in establishing Critical Care as an independent speciality in this part of the world. He has advanced training in treating patients with severe organ failure and requiring life supports like mechanical ventilation, hemodynamic support, renal support, etc. He is well trained in ECMO and other extracorporeal therapies in the management of critically ill patients. He is the founding Organizing Secretary of the popular Hyderabad Intensive Symposium. He is a regular organizer of various conferences and workshops and has played a great role in training and guiding many young intensive care specialists. He is a reputed teacher for DNB and ISCCM Critical Care Fellowship programs.

Languages:

Hindi,English,Telugu.

Expertise:

• Medical and Surgical Intensive Care
• Neuro- Critical Care
• Trauma Care
• Mechanical Ventilation
• Extracorporeal therapies- ECMO, CRRT, Blood Purification Techniques
• Toxicology
• Nutrition in the ICU

Education Details:

• MBBS, MD ( Anesthesia ) FNB ( Critical Care ) FICCM ( Fellow of Indian College Of Critical Care Medicine )

Achievements & Rewards:

• ANBAI ( AP and TS) – DNB teacher in Critical Care Medicine Award
• Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Health and Medical Excellence Awards
• ISCCM Presidential Citation Award
• Dr. Mudundi Ranganath Raju Foundation Award

Publications:

• Javeri Y, Jagathkar G, Dixit S, Chaudhary D, Zirpe KG, Mehta Y, et al. Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine Position Statement for Central Venous Catheterization and Management 2020. Indian J Crit Care Med 2020; 24(Suppl 1): S6–S30
• Jagathkar G. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in the Elderly. Indian J Crit Care Med 2021;25(6):613–614
• Jagathkar G, Samavedam S. How to Audit Transfusion Practices in the Intensive Care Unit? Indian J Crit Care Med 2019;23(Suppl 3): S212–S214
• Gubbala R, Jagathkar G, Mayaluri NR, Raghavendra KP. Severe adult-onset still’s disease mimicking systemic infection. Indian J Crit Care Med 2018;22:616-8
• Agrawal P, Agrawal R, Jagathkar G. Clinical analysis of maternal and fetal outcomes in COVID-19 pregnant women undergoing cesarean section in a tertiary care center in Hyderabad, India. Int J Reprod Contracept Obstet Gynecol 2021;10:733-7
• Intensive Care Unit- Acquired Immunosuppression -published in the Critical Care Update 2020
• Hemoperfusion for the treatment of poisoning- published in the ISCCM manual of RRT and ECMO in ICU, 2020
• Monitoring Accuracy Of Home Ventilators and Telemonitoring of Patient on Home Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure- published in the ISCCM Manual of Noninvasive Ventilation
• Should we target SBP/DBP/MAP in shock- published in the Critical Care Update 2019
• Snake Envenomation- published in the Evidence-Based Core Topics in Critical Care Medicine 2019
• Co-author: Personalized Medicine in Intensive Care: Is it the future?- published in the Critical Care Update 2018, ISCCM
• Patterns and consequences of intrahospital transport of critically ill patients – poster presentation at the ISCCM annual congress 2015
• Performance of clinical scoring systems among critically ill obstetric patients – paper presentation at the ISCCM annual congress 2014
• Indications and outcomes of Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in critical care – poster presentation at the ISCCM annual congress 2014
• Co-author of Poster on “Renal Failure in Leptospirosis in India” at the annual CRRT conference, San Diego- March 2007
• Co-author for “Biomarkers in Sepsis” published in the Critical Care Update 2007
• Co-author of Poster on “Outcomes of ARF on CRF in a tertiary care hospital in India” at the annual CRRT conference, San Diego- March 2007
• Co-author of Poster on “ Thrombolysis in submassive pulmonary embolism” at the annual National Critical Care conference, Chennai- Feb 2006
• Presented free paper on “Vasopressin in refractory septic shock” at the annual National Critical Care conference, Nagpur- Feb 2005