Dr. Shankar Kadam

AREA(S) OF INTEREST:

Paediatric Cardiac Anaesthesia, Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care, Trans oesophageal echocardiography, ECMO, HFOV

TREATMENTS/PROCEDURES OFFERED:

Paediatric Cardiac Anaesthesia, Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care

NAME OF INSTITUTE(S):

• Medical Trust Hospital, Kochin, Kerala, India

FELLOWSHIPS:

• Cardiac Anaesthesia and Intensive Care from Narayana Hrudulaya Bangalore, India

After completing Fellowship in Cardiac Anaesthesia at famous Narayana Hrudualaya Bangalore, he joined at Kokilaben Hospital and medical research centre in 2010. Since then he is working and excelling in the field of Paediatric Cardiac Anaesthesia and Pediatric cardiac intensive care unit. Pediatric cardiac intensive care unit in kokilaben is 24 beded ICU with all modern facility to manage pre and post pediatric cardiac surgical patients. ICU has facility of ECMO, Inhaled NO, HFOV, modern ventilators etc etc. He has immense experience in managing even very small neonate in operating room and intensive care unit. He is well versed in Intraoperative TEE for Congenital Heart Disease. He has observed pediatric cardiac surgical units of various hospitals like Great Ormond Street Hospital(GOSH) UK and gathered experience in field of pediatric cardiac ICU and anaesthesia.

KDAH Experience:

• He is very much part of children's heart centre since its inception and he is instrumental in all its achievements.

Papers Published:

• IJA2012-Pneumothorax and surgical emphysema after therapeutic endobronchial suctioning.
• Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia, Vol. 17, No. 2, April-June, 2014, pp. 175-176.
• Extracorporeal membrane oxygenator for atrial septal defect-Shankar V Kadam1, Hari Bipin R Kattana2, Suresh G Rao2, Kamlesh B Tailor1
• Indian J Anaesth. 2014 Jul-Aug; 58(4): 501–502. Infant feeding tube stiffened with guide wire as endotracheal tube exchanger and introducer in difficult airways! Shankar V Kadam, Shyam Y Dhake, Kshiti J Doshi, and Kamlesh B Tailor.
• Original article - Effect of preoperative propranolol on postoperative junctional ectopic tachycardia after complete surgical repair of Tetralogy of Fallot: A prospective observational study-Shankar Vithalrao Kadam, Kamlesh Tailor, Snehal Kulkarni, Smrutiranjan Mohanty, Hari Bipin Radhakrishnan, Suresh G. Rao. Nigerian Journal of Cardiology | July - December 2015 | Vol 12 | Issue 2.
• Original article - Effect of dexmeditomidine on postoperative junctional ectopic tachycardia after complete surgical repair of tetralogy of Fallot: A prospective randomized controlled study.
• Shankar V. Kadam, Kamlesh B. Tailor, Snehal Kulkarni1, Smrutiranjan R. Mohanty2,Preetha V Joshi3, Suresh G. Rao2.
• Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia | Jul-Sep-2015 | Vol 18 | Issue 3

Professional Memberships

• Indian Society of Anaesthesiology
• Indian Association of Cardiac and Thorasic Anaesthesia
• Association of Medical Consultant