Dr. Ushanandini Dhagudu Kushal

AREA(S) OF INTEREST:

• Heart function, Advanced Ventilation

PROCEDURES PERFORMED:

• All invasive venous & arterial cannulations, diagnostic bronchoscopy, percutaneous ECMO Cannulations, advanced tracheal and nasal airway intubations, sub dural ICP bolt insertions, POCUS

TREATMENTS/PROCEDURES OFFERED:

• Management of post and pre operative cardiac surgical children admitted to children’s heart centre, Pediatric cardiac ICU

NAME OF INSTITUTE(S):

• Graduation from Kurnool Medical College, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh
• Post graduation from CSI Holdsworth memorial hospital, Mysuru, Karnataka

FELLOWSHIPS:

• Rainbow Children’s Hospital, Bengaluru, Karnataka
• Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bengaluru, Karnataka
• The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
• POCUS fellowship from Western University, London, Canada
Simulation facilitator training from PediSTARS, India

• Gold medalist in Indian Academy of Pediatrics Fellowship in critical Care Medicine
• Certified Simulation facilitator from PediSTARS, India

Dr Nandini has experience in both general Pediatric and cardiac critical care medicine. Her critical care training is from the best institutions from both India and Canada. During her critical care training, she had managed many patients on advanced life supporting devices like ECMO, VADs like Berlin, Heart mate3 & Impella, advanced ventilation modes like HFOV, APRV, NAVA and transporting the critically ill children. She has experience in managing patients post heart, lungs, liver and renal transplant patients getting admitted to ICU.

She has special interest in academics, nursing education, and Simulation based training and undertook many academic activities.

Before joining KDAH, she was associated with Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for Children, Mumbai and Apollo Hospital, Navi Mumbai. She offered her services as Pediatric cardiac intensivist to Healing Little Hearts foundation, London UK and as a Pediatrician to Vivekananda Memorial hospital, a tribal hospital in Nagarhole reserve forest.

RESEARCH WORK

• Correlation of CRP with MPV in neonatal sepsis
• COVID 19 preparedness in a tertiary
• Practice changes in trauma assessment by POCUS – simulation-based teaching
• Management of Acute Kidney Injury in PICU in low- and middle-income countries in WFPICCS in December 2021
• Clinical phenotypes of Pediatric ARDS and application at the bedside; A scoping review & meta-analysis (Ongoing)
• Visualization of inspiratory effort and respiratory mechanics to promote lung- and diaphragm protective ventilation (VIREM) (ongoing)
• Airway closure during Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (AiCLOSE) (ongoing)

• Indian Academy of Pediatrics (CIAP)
• Pediatric Intensive Care Chapter (PICC)
• College of Physicians and surgeons of Ontario (CPSO)