Dr. G. Praburamniranjan Gopalakrishnan

Profile

• Senior Consultant Anesthesiologist, The Eye Foundation, R.S. Puram, Coimbatore.

Areas of interest:

• Shock and Sepsis management.
• Neuro Critical care.
• Hemodynamic Monitoring.
• Ultrasound and its applications in Critical care.
• ECMO
• Regional Anesthesia and pain management.

Expertise in the following skills

• Difficult Airway Management.
• Opioid Free Anesthesia.
• Invasive Lines.
• Bronchoscopy.
• Intercostal Chest Tube Insertion.
• POCUS (ECHO+FAST+Chest).
• Prone Ventilation.
• Post Cardiac arrest Management.
• Trauma and burns victims and other emergencies.
• Multi Disciplinary rounds.
• Making Definitive Plan of Management.

Training

• Difficult Airway Management inclusive of Tracheostomy.
• Mechanical ventilator workshop.
• AHA’s BLS & ACLS Training.
• Hemodynamic monitoring.
• Neurocritical care, poison unit, trauma unit.
• ECMO (under supervision).

Conference, Workshop and CME:

• ISA state conference July 2011.
• Ultrasound guided Nerve blocks/Advance Airway, TPN . October 2011.
• Recent Trends in cardiology, August 2013.
• CME on Pulmonary Critical care, November 2013.
• CME on Fluid, Electrolytes & Acid Base Disorders March 2014.
• ISCCM south zone conference – pulmonary critical care, October 2015.
• ISCCM south zone conference - Neuro critical care , September 2017.
• CME on Toxicology & Trauma , May 2019.
• Ramachandra Anesthesia Continuing Education, RACE in 2012, 2014, 2018, 2021.

Research & Publications:

• Comparison of intubating conditions with conventional Macintosh laryngoscope and Glidescope (Videolaryngoscope), Published in TNJA Vol 1, January 2015
• Comparison of effects of dexmeditomidine and Haloperidol in delirium in ICU.
• A Comparative study of Intra Peritoneal Onlay Mesh (IPOM) surgeries done under General Anesthesia with USG guided Erector Spinae plane block versus conventional General Anesthesia Using Opioids (Ongoing).