Anesthesiology and pain management

Dr. Kalyana Sundaram Raghavendran

~SENIOR CONSULTANT ANAESTHESIOLOGIST~

E-Mail: **************@*****.*** Mobile: +91-984******* Professional Synopsis

A dedicated professional with nearly 37 years experience in Anaesthesia administration, Critical Care, and Pain management in India, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. Currently associated with a Multi Speciality Corporate Hospital in Chennai as a Senior Consultant Anaesthesiologist. A skilled professional with deftness in handling patients undergoing anaesthesia for diverse surgical specialities like General Surgery including Laparoscopic Surgery, Cardiac surgery, Neuro Surgery, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, ENT, Orthopaedic Surgery, Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery, Paediatric Surgery, Urology, Ophthalmic Surgery and Faciomaxillary Surgery for elective & emergency cases. Expertise in handling general/ regional anaesthesia cases, chronic pain and monitored anaesthesia care. Possesses high level of patience and compassion to listen empathetically to patients during the pre-operative sessions. Excellent communication, interpersonal coordination, analytical and organizational skills. Ability to remain calm even under extremely tense and unnerving conditions.

Academics

MD (Anaesthesiology) from Safdarjang Hospital affiliated to the University of Delhi, Delhi in March 1981.

MBBS from JIPMER,Pondicherry6, affiliated to University of Madras, Chennai in December 1976. Areas of Expertise

Providing services focusing on surgical patients and pain relief.

Administering anaesthetics, closely monitoring patients' vital signs during surgery & making necessary adjustments in the dose.

Keeping close vigil on patients through early recovery stages after an operation; and administering appropriate medications during recovery.

Treatment of patients with conditions causing chronic pain.

Holding "preoperative interview” with a surgical patient to review the patient's medical history and medications, discussing the upcoming surgery, and identifying options for anaesthesia and pain-killing drugs.

Developing familiarity with the patient's pre-existing medical conditions, such as diabetes or heart disease, and formulating plans on how to manage those conditions during surgery.

Supervising and administering medications to reverse the effects of the anaesthetic during the recovery phase, and returning the patient to consciousness if a general anaesthetic has been used.

Monitoring the patient's vital functions, along with nurses and other specially trained staff in the recovery room.

Ensuring that the patient has fully recovered to be discharged from the recovery room. Surgical/ Medical Advisory Services

Handling of seriously and dangerously ill patients, admitted in the ICU as well as in High Dependency Unit.

Attending to medical emergencies, accident victims, and poly-trauma cases and providing required services.

Monitoring status of patients on ventilator.

Undertaking patient counselling sessions prior to the performance of a surgical procedure and afterwards, to help the patient cope with the trauma.

Anesthesia Practice

Acute/Chronic Pain

Management

Patient Counselling

Trauma Support

Emergency Handling

Knowledge Development

Expertise Enhancement

Initiatives

Cross-departmental

Coordination

Co-ordinating with the emergency team to ensure prompt response to emergencies.

Interfacing with specialists & multi-speciality units to ensure world class standards of patient care. Special Training and Experience

Expertise in the use of Laryngo Tracheal Fiberscope for difficult intubation cases.

Interventional pain management procedures like coeliac plexus blocks, superior hypogastric plexus blocks, sympathetic chain blocks, Rackz adhesiolysis, facet joint injections, transforaminal injections,cervical,thoracic,lumbar and sacral epidural injections, intra-articular ozone injections, ozone nucleolysis,radiofrequency ablation of trigeminal ganglion,sphenopalatine ganglion and peripheral nerves,dorsal root ganglion radiofrequency ablation,facet joint denervation by RF lesioning,intrathecal pump placement,intrathecal alcohol neurolysis, percutaneous transforaminal discetomy etc. for various referred cases.Has attended several conferences and workshops on Interventional pain management.Awarded Fellowship in Interventional Pain Management by Aesculap Academy,Kolkatta(FIPM) in August 2008.

Expertise in Regional analgesia using nerve stimulators and ultra sound equipment.

Paediatric anaesthesia including Neonatal Anaesthesia &Paediatric cardiac anesthesia.

Anaesthesia for Radiological Procedures- Has successfully managed nearly 3000 patients undergoing MRI Scan under general endotracheal anaesthesia since Nov’91. Now practising TIVA in MRI room.

Administered anaesthesia to over 10,000 cases undergoing Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy and other Endoscopic procedures since Aug’92.

Worked as Visiting Associate in Anaesthesia at Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne (Australia) for 4 weeks and at Royal Children's' Hospital, Melbourne, Australia for 1 week- Mar’93 to Apr’93.

Obstetric Analgesia - practising Epidural Analgesia and CSE for relief of pain of labour for the past 25 years.

Anaesthetist In-charge of Intensive Care Unit for 18 months at King Fahad Hospital, Medina (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)

Expertise in percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy procedure for ICU patients.

Cardiac Anaesthesia and Neuro Anaesthesia.

Anesthesia for Organ Transplant-Liver and Kidney. Employment Contour

April 4th 2014 till date at SIMS Hospital,Chennai.As Director of Anesthesia and Pain Management. June 2009 to 3rd April 2014 at Apollo Children’s Hospital,Chennai. As Senior Consultant Anesthesiologist and Head of the Dept. of Anesthesia.

(This is a 80 bedded state of the art, multispeciality tertiary care hospital for children. Role

Managing Paediatric Anesthesia for diverse Paediatric Surgical Specialities like General Paediatric Surgery including Laparoscopic Surgery,Paediatric Urology,Paediatric Plastic Surgey,Paediatric ENT Surgery,Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgery,Paediatric Cardiac Surgery,Paediatric Craniofacial and Dental Surgery,Paediatric Ophthalmic Surgery,Paediatric Neuro Surgery etc.

Paediatric Pain Management including post operative pain relief with epidural analgesia,PCEA,PCA and IV opioid infusions and chronic pain management.

Procedural sedation /Anaesthesia for radiological procedures like MRI Scan,CT Scan,Ultrasonography and for endoscopic procedures like Upper GI scopy,ERCP and Colonoscopy etc. Teaching and training DNB Candidates in Paediatric Anesthesia. Performing invasive procedures in Paediatric Intensive Care Unit and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit like Central line and arterial line insertions under Ultrasound guidance and endotracheal insertion in patients with difficult airway. May’89 to May 2009 with Apollo Hospitals, Chennai as Senior Consultant Anaesthesiologist, a position held for 20 yrs.

(This is a 650 bed multi-specialty corporate hospital with excellent facilities) Role

Managing cases in various operation theatres dealing with diverse surgical specialities like General Surgery including Laparoscopic Surgery, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, ENT, Orthopaedic Surgery, Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery, Paediatric Surgery,Urology, Ophthalmic Surgery and Faciomaxillary Surgery for elective & emergency cases.

Administering epidural analgesia for labour pain relief.

Overseeing administration of anaesthesia for radiological procedures like MRI Scan, CT scan, Cath Laboratory Procedures, Endoscopy procedures like OGD, ERCP, Colonoscopy, etc.

Conducting interventional pain procedures for referred cases.

Teaching and training DNB candidates in Anaesthesiology. Jun’86 to Apr’89-as Specialist in Anaesthesia at King Fahad Hospital, Medina, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This is a 500 bedded tertiary care hospital under the Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Previous Assignments

Jan’84 to Mar’86 University of Ilorin, Ilorin (Nigeria) Lecturer in Anaesthesia Jan’83 to Jan’84 University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin (Nigeria) Senior Registrar in Anaesthesia

Jan’82 to Nov’82 Sree Chitra Tirunal Medical Centre, Trivandrum (India) Lecturer in Anaesthesia

(A Referral Centre for Cardiac and Neurosurgery)

Jun’81 to Jan’82 JIPMER Hospital, Pondicherry (India) Senior Registrar in Anaesthesia

Resident Practice

Apr’79 to Mar’81 Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi (India) PG Junior Resident in Anaesthesia

Apr’78 to Mar’79 JIPMER Hospital, Pondicherry (India) Non PG Junior Resident Internship

Jan’77 to Jan’78 JIPMER Hospital, Pondicherry (India) Professional Affiliations

Life Member of:

Indian Society of Anaesthetists (ISA).

ITAACS - Indian Chapter.

IMA- Tamil Nadu Chapter.

Indian Society for the Study of Pain(ISSP)

Indian Association of Pediatric Anesthesiologists(IAPA) Registered Practitioner

MBBS - Registered with Tamil Nadu Medical Council on 25th January 1978 (Reg. No. 30250).

M.D (Anaesthesia) - Registered as additional qualification on 20th January 1993 (Tamil Nadu Medical Council).

Temporary Registration with:

Medical Board of Victoria, Australia for 12 months from Apr’93 (Certificate No. 1919).

Nigeria Medical Council from 1983-1986.

Conferences, Workshops Attended and other distinguished roles

Has been regularly attending ISA Conferences held at various locations for the past several years.

Attended CME programmes and state level conferences. Presented papers on MRI Anaesthesia and other topics on various occasions.

Conducted workshops on Ultrasound Guided Nerve Blocks and other procedures at the ISA National Conference, Vishakapatnam in December 2007, at CMC Vellore on 31st January 2008 during the ISSP conference, NEMACON 2008 Conference at Mumbai, RSACPCON (Research Society of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology) Conference in November 2008 held at Kolkata,ISA Karnataka State Conference at Tumkur in Nov.2009.

Attended a 2week Fellowship Course in Interventional Pain Management under the auspices of Aesculap Academy at Charnock Hospital,Kolkatta in August 2008.

Attended Anesthesia International Summit at Seshan (Shanghai),China from Jan.10 to Jan.11 2009 sponsored by Abbott Anesthesia Academy.

Attended the first International Symposium on Spine and Paraspinal Sonography for Anesthesia and Pain Medicine held at Prince of Wales Hospital,Shatin, Hong Kong from 9-11 April 2009.

Attended a 5 day review course for FIPP Examination on Interventional Pain Management at Charnock Hospital,Kolkatta in August 2009.

Panelist in Paediatric Anesthesia session at ISA conference held at Chennai in Dec.2009.

DNB Examiner in Anaesthesiology at Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi in December 1999.

Attended a workshop on percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic discectomy held at M.S.Ramaiah Advanced Learning Centre held at Bengaluru from 21.1.16 -24.1.16.

Attended a 3 week certificate course awarded by IITTSS on Percutaneous Transforaminal Endoscopic Discectomy held at Sushrutha Hospital for Othopedics and traumatology from November 20, 2016 till December 10, 2016.

Publications

Management of accidental dural puncture with intrathecal catheter placement –Co author of award winning paper presented at the ISA-South Zone Conference at Kodaikanal,Madurai,Tamil Nadu in June 2007.

Continuous femoral nerve block for pre operative and post operative analgesia in patients with fracture neck of femur-Co author of paper presented at ISA South Zone Conference at Kodaikanal,Madurai,Tamil Nadu in June 2007.

“Anaesthesia for a 2-year old child for MRI Scan-How I do it?” Presentation at ISA Conference held at Bhopal in December 2004.

Anaesthesia for Radiological Procedures- Lecture delivered at ISA, South Zone held at Trichy in June 2004.

Improvisations in Anaesthetic Practice-Co author of paper ISA Conference, Cochin in December 1999.

Safety and Efficacy of a Specially Designed Circuit for use in MRI Room-Co-authored the paper for ISA Conference, Kathmandu (Nepal) held in December 1998.

Use of Vasodilators in Attenuating the Haemodynamic Response to CO2 Insufflation and Change of Posture in Patients undergoing Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy-co-author of paper at ISA Conference, New Delhi held in December 1997

Anaesthesia for Patients undergoing MRI scan-Review of 175 cases at ISA Conference, Bangalore in December 1994.

Relationship between Arterial to end-tidal CO2 in patients undergoing Open Heart Surgery-co-author of paper ISA Conference, Mangalore, India, December 1982 Personal Details

Date of Birth : 12th March, 1954

Mailing Address : Plot no.258,8th Street,Ashtalakshmi Nagar, Alapakkam, Chennai-600116 (Tamil Nadu, India)

Tel. (Res.) +91-44-247*****

Marital status : Married with 2 sons.

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