DR. GUNCHAN PAUL
Professor
Critical Care Medicine
MBBS, MD (Anaesthesia), IDCCM, FSNCC
PMC-31439
About Doctor
Dr Gunchan Paul, Critical Care specialist with 18 years of experience in managing patients in intensive care unit was an achiever of NTSE scholarship from Class X onwards, graduate from GMC, Chandigarh in Merit position with two gold and five silver medals in various subjects. Following postgraduation she acquired clinical skill and knowledge in Cardiac Anesthesia at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi for 3 years.
Her aim has always been to work dedicatedly and sincerely utilizing her medical education and experience for alleviating sufferings of patients to the best of her ability, with compassion and empathy. She has performed more than 200 Percutaneous tracheostomies and is well versed with advanced modes of ventilation, advanced haemodynamic and cardiac output monitoring devices and point of care ultrasound use for managing the critically ill patients.
Being an active member of the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine, she has presided over various leadership roles at city branch and national level and has been recently elected as the Executive Member of the national body of ISCCM. She has delivered lectures and chaired sessions in various zonal and national conferences, published in prestigious journals and takes pride in teaching the budding generation of health care professionals.
Certifications
- Accredited teacher for IDCCM (Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine)
- Convener of Hospital Infection Control Committee (HICC) since 2020
- Member of Hospital Employee Co-ordination Committee
- 4.Zonal In-charge (North) Society of Neuro Critical Care- SNCC (2022-2024)
- Member of Research & Guidelines Committee for Poisonings by ISCCM
- Chairperson, Obstetric Working Group, ISCCM 2025
- Member of North Zone Research Committee of ISCCM 2024
- Chairman of Ludhiana branch of ISCCM for the year 2024-2026
- Secretary of Ludhiana branch of ISCCM for the year 2021-2023
- Scientific Secretary of Ludhiana branch of ISCCM for the year 2019-2020
- Treasurer of the Ludhiana branch of ISCCM for the year 2017-2019
- Executive member of the Ludhiana branch of ISCCM for the year 2015-2017
- Editorial Board Member of Journal of Acute Care
- Academic Editor of Asian Journal of Research and Reports in Neurology
- Organizing Committee Member- 2024 World Critical Care & Anesthesiology Conference (WCAC)
Publications
She has about 40 publications and 10 chapters in books, including 29 publications related to Neurocritical Care (15 original research articles, 10 case reports, 1 review, 3 chapters).
1. Spectrum of neurological complications in HELLP syndrome”. Birinder S. Paul, Sunil K. Juneja, Gunchan Paul, Shweta Gupt Neurology India, 2013:61(5);467-471.
2. A Comparison of FOUR Score and Glasgow Coma Scale for Predicting Outcome in Neurosurgical Patients. Yadav Sanjay, Paul Gunchan, Rupinder Kaur, Gautam Parshotam, Sandeep Kaushal. Journal of Advanced Clinical Pharmacology,2016:3;1-7.
3. Pattern of hospital admission and outcome in Parkinson’s disease: A study fromPunjab, India. Birinder Singh Paul, Gunchan Paul, Gagandeep Singh, SandeepKaushal, Verma U Neurology Asia 2017; 22(1) : 33-39.
4. Prospective Evaluation of Patients Leaving against Medical Advice of a Tertiary Care Hospital: Comparison of Emergency and Intensive Care Units. Paul Gunchan, GautamPL ,KhullarRubina , Paul Birinder S. International Journal of Medicine and Public Health, 2018; 8:18-23
5. Parkinson’s Disease in Intensive Care Unit: An Observational Study of Frequencies,Causes, and Outcomes. MPaul G, Paul BS, Gautam PL, Singh G, Kaushal S. Ann Indian Acad Neurol 2019;22:79-83.
6. Patients Leaving Against Medical Advice–A National Survey Gunchan Paul, Nikhil Gautam, PL Gautam, Rubina Khullar Mahajan, Suresh Ragavaiah. Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2019: 23(3);143-5
7. Prevalence of malnutrition in Parkinson's disease and correlation with gastrointestinal symptoms. Birinder Singh Paul, Tejinder Singh, Gunchan Paul, Dinesh Jain, Gagandeep Singh, SandeepKaushal, Rajoo Singh Chhina. Ann Indian AcadNeurol 2019;22(4):447-452. doi: 10.4103/aian.AIAN_349_18
8. Assessment of knowledge gaps and perceptions about COVID-19 among health care workers and general public-national cross-sectional study. Gunchan Paul, Shruti Sharma, Guneet Singh, Gurparvesh Singh, Sarit Sharma, Birinder Singh Paul, ParshotamLalGautam. Journal of Advanced Clinical Pharmacology 2020:36(3):337-344
9. Percutaneous Tracheostomy in COVID Era: Time to adapt and improvise. Gunchan Paul, Parshotam L Gautam ,Shruti Sharma , MV Sravani, MR Krishna. Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine 2021;25:642-47
10. Paul, Gunchan; Gautam, ParshotamLal,; Sharma, Shruti; Kumar, Jeevan; Gupta, Apoorva; Sharma, Mukul; Khehra, Akashdeep Singh; Paul, Birinder S; Mohan, Bishav. Analysis of trimodal pattern of mortality among hospitalized COVID-19 patients- Lessons from tertiary care hospital?” Journal of Advanced Clinical Pharmacology, 2022; Volume 38 - Issue Suppl 1 - p S107-S114 doi: 10.4103/joacp.joacp_58_22
11. Coping strategies and emotional responses adopted by health care workers during COVID-19 pandemic-braving the storm. Sharma, Shruti; Sharma, Sarit1; Gunchan, Paul;Parshotam, GautamLal; Bansal, Namita; Singh, Gurwinder; Kaur, Arshdeep. Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology 2023 Oct-Dec;39(4):628-636. doi: 10.4103/joacp.joacp_196_22.
12. Retrospective Analysis of Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Pregnant Women with SARS-CoV-2 Infections Admitted to Intensive Care Units in India (Preg-CoV): A Multicenter StudySharmili Sinha, Gunchan Paul, Bhagyesh A Shah, Tejas Karmata, Naveen Paliwal, Jayesh Dobariya, Srikant Behera, Aarti Mona, Vipul P Thakkar, Gunadhar Padhi, Pooja Bihani, Saurabh Karmakar, Jay Prakash, Mayurdhwaja Rath, Anand Mishra, Vinay Singhal, Alpesh Ruparelia, Alisha Chaudhury, Alaukik Goyal. Indian J Crit Care Med 2024;28(3):265-272. doi: 10.5005/jp-journals-10071-24656.
13. Paul G, Mahajan RK, Gautam PL, Kaur G, Paul SS, Paul B. Voices from the ICU: Perspectives on Humanization in Critical Care Settings. Indian J Crit Care Med 2024;28(10):923–929
14. Paul G, Mandava SV, Gautam PL, et al. Patterns of Acute Kidney Injury and Vasopressor Effects in Septic Patients with Poor Cardiac Function. J Acute Care 2024;3(2):65–71.
Awards
1. First Prize in poster presentation titled “Percutaneous Tracheostomy in COVID era: Time to adapt and improvise” at TMC-DAC, 10th January,2020
2. Presidential Citation Award by Society of Neurocritical Care in 2023
3. Best oral paper award for presentation on ‘Humanism in ICU’ at 30th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine, Criticare 2024 organized at Kolkata, 1-3rd March, 2024
4. First prize for Poem Presentation on SEPSIS on 30 year celebration s of ISCCM 2023
5. 4th Prize for poster on ARDS – Collaborate, Deliberate and Educate, at World ARDS Day celebration by ISCCM on 12th August, 2024
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