DR. SHRUTI  SHARMA

DR. SHRUTI SHARMA

Associate Professor


Critical Care Medicine
MBBS, DNB Anaesthesia, IDCCM Critical Care Medicine
PMC-30145

About Doctor

Dr Shruti Sharma is currently working in the Department of Critical Care Medicine as Associated Professor. She joined this institute in January 2006 as Senior Resident and her total experience in the field of Critical Care Medicine spans over nearly two decades. In her experience of more than 19 years she has honed her knowledge and skills. She is well versed with the recent advancements in the field of Critical Care Medicine with special interest in caring of critically sick patients in surgical and medical intensive care units. Her field of interest in critical care are mechanical ventilation, infection prevention, advanced hemodynamic monitoring and bedside point of care ultrasound. She has Keen interest in academics and research and she is an active member of Hospital Code Blue Committee and Hospital Infection Control Committee as well. She has nearly 35 publications in national and International journals with an H index of 12.  She has been invited to many National and International conferences as resource faculty and has remarkably represented DMC&H at the global platform. Some of her recent researches presented in conferences include the following:

  •  Comprehensive Critical Care (W4C) SMS College Jaipur, Rajasthan between. Title: “Challenging Central Airway and Ventilation Emergencies- Thinking out of the Box”
  •  EFICON-2023 at Goa Medical College. Title: Resilience of Health Care Workers during COVID Pandemic: Lessons from past
  • Oral paper presentation in 30th annual National Conference of the ISCCM at Kolkata. Title: Paraquat Poisonings Management in a Tertiary Care Hospital- Is there a silver lining in dark clouds?
  • Presentations in APICS 2024 at Singapore titled “Percutaneous Dilatational Tracheostomy made safer-Our Experience Regarding Ultrasound Guided and Hybrid Percutaneous Tracheostomy from North India” and “Central airway Emergencies-Experience from a tertiary care center”
  • Oral paper titled: REAP- Resuscitation Attitudes and Practices Study in High School Students-an Untapped Task force at  CRITICARE 2025, at  Kochi 
  • Presented poster titled: Quality Indicators In Intensive Care Unit: A Driver For Continuous Quality Improvement, at CRITICARE 2025 Kochi 

Her specialized skill sets are as follows:

  • POCUS including Lung ultrasound, Echocardiography, Diaphragm ultrasound, Transcranial Doppler, e-FAST
  • Well versed with the following procedures: Handling difficult airway, Laryngeal mask airway, Combitube, Double lumen tube, Percutaneous Tracheostomy, Crico-thyrotomy, Video laryngoscope, fiberoptic bronchoscope
  • Lumbar puncture, Epidural block, Combined Spinal Epidural block
  • Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Central venous line insertion (jugular and subclavian), dialysis catheter insertion, intra-arterial line insertion (radial, brachial and femoral), chest tube insertion, peritoneal dialysis and management of critically ill patients.
  • Ultrasound guided vascular line insertion, Hemodynamic monitoring, and echocardiography are some of the other skills acquired during my service here by attending various workshops for the same and are now inculcated in routine practice.
  • Electrical impedance tomography for weaning of ARDS patients.
  • Invasive Cardiac output monitoring while handling critically sick patients.
  • Active in infection prevention and treatment protocols implementation in ICUs

She is an avid learner and is dedicated to patient care.  Bestowed with clinical skill, empathy and compassion she strives to be the best version of herself and serve humanity.

Specialization and Expertise

Critical Care Medicine

Certifications

  1. Fellowship in Critical Care (IDCCM) in 2011.
  2. Infection control and ICU Management at Detroit Medical Center and Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA (June 2013)
  3. Completed ‘Basic Course in Biomedical Research’ as mandated by National Medical Council
  4. Life membership of Society of Neuro Critical Care (SNCC)
  5. Life member of Epidemiology Foundation of India (EFI)
  6. Life member of Research Society of Anaesthesiology & Clinical    Pharmacology (RSACP)
  7. Life member of Indian Society of Anesthesiologists (ISA)
  8. Accredited BLS & ACLS provider - American Heart Association (AHA)
  9. Fundamental Critical Care Support (FCCS) Provider and Instructor Course conducted by society of Critical Care Medicine, California, USA.
  10. Life membership of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM)
  11. Member of Hospital Code blue committee.
  12. Member of Hospital Infection Control Committee (HICC)

Publications


  1. Baweja H, Sharma S, Sharma S, Kashyap H. Basic Life Support Measures Training among High School Students: an Untapped Workforce. Indian J Comm Health. 2024;36(6):839-845.
  2. Goyal P, Gautam PL, Sharma S, Paul G, Taneja V, Mona A. A Study of Paraquat Poisoning Presentation, Severity, Management and Outcome in a Tertiary Care Hospital: Is There a Silver Lining in the Dark Clouds? Indian J Crit Care Med 2024;28 (8):741–747. PMID: 39239183 PMCID: PMC11372668
  3. Sharma S, Sharma S, Gunchan P, Parshotam GL, Bansal N, Singh G, et al. Coping strategies and emotional responses adopted by health care workers during COVID 19 pandemic braving the storm. J Anaesthesiol Clin Pharmacol 2023;39(4):628-36. PMCID: PMC10805205 PMID: 38269173
  4. Kaur A, Sharma S, Singh VP, Krishna MR, Gautam PL, Singh G. Sonographic assessment of diaphragmatic thickening and excursion as predictors of weaning success in the intensive care unit: A prospective observational study. Indian J Anaesth 2022;66:776-82. PMID: 36590197
  5. Paul Gunchan, Gautam Parshotam Lal, 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.  J Anaesthesiol Clin Pharmacol. 2022 Jul;38(Suppl 1):S107-S114. doi: 10.4103/joacp.joacp_58_22 PMID: 36060178
  6. Kaur J, Sharma S, Singh MI, Sharma S. How trainee doctors and nurses react to simulated scenarios of violence against healthcare workers: A cross-sectional study.  Indian J Med Ethics. 2022 Jul-Sep;VII(3):219-225. doi: 10.20529/IJME.2022.009.  PMID: 35695854.
  7. Co-investigator in INDICAPS-II study at National level. Divatia JV, Mehta Y, Govil D, Zirpe K, Amin PR, Ramakrishnan N, et al. Intensive Care in India in 2018–2019: The Second Indian Intensive Care Case Mix and Practice Patterns Study. Indian J Crit Care Med 2021;25(10):1091–1105. PMID: 34916740
  8. Paul G, Gautam PL, Sharma S, Sravani MV, Krishna MR. Percutaneous Tracheostomy in COVID Era: Time to adapt and improvise. Indian J Crit Care Med 2021;25(6):642–647. PMID: 34316143
  9. Paul G, Sharma S*, Singh G, Singh G, Sharma S, Paul BS, et al. Assessment of knowledge gaps and perceptions about COVID-19 among health care workers and general public-national cross-sectional study. J Anaesthesiol Clin Pharmacol 2020; 36:337-44. PMID:33487900
  10. Sagar M, Sharma S, Chaudhary A, Sharma S*. A mixed-method study to assess the knowledge-practice gap regarding hand hygiene among healthcare providers in a tertiary care hospital. J Anaesthesiol Clin Pharmacol 2020; 36:359-65. PMID:33487903
  11. Kaur A, GautamPL, Sharma S*, Singh VP, Sharma S. Bedside ultrasonographic assessment of optic nerve sheath diameter as a means of detecting raised intracranial pressure in neuro-trauma patients: A cross-sectional study. Ann Indian Acad Neurol 2021; 24:63-8. PMID: 33911381
  12. Shruti Sharma, Parshotam Lal Gautam, Sarit Sharma, Amandeep Kaur, Neha Bhatia, Gurpreet Singh, Paawanjot Kaur, Anhad Kumar. Questionnaire-based Evaluation of Factors Leading to Patient- physician Distrust and Violence against Healthcare Workers. Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2019; 23(7):302-09, PMID: 31406432
  13. Sarit Sharma, Mahesh Satija, Manvi Sagar, Anurag Chaudhary, Shruti Sharma, Pranjl Sharma. A Mixed Methods Study to Introduce Bioethics training in Undergraduate Medical Teaching of Community Medicine. National Journal of Community Medicine,2018;9(6):415-19
  14. Bishav Mohan, Sarit Sharma, Shruti Sharma, Dinesh Kaushal, Bhupinder Singh, Shibba Takkar, Naved Aslam, Abhishek Goyal, Gurpreet S. Wander. Assessment of knowledge about Healthy Heart Habits in Urban and Rural population of Punjab after SMS campaign—A Cross-sectional study. Indian Heart J. 2017 Jul - Aug; 69(4):480-484.   PMID: 28822515
  15. Sarit Sharma, Shruti Sharma, Jagdeep Wig. Factors Related to Non-Referral of Patients with Presumptive Pulmonary TB to Designated Microscopy Centers (DMCs) by Registered Private Practitioners in urban areas of Punjab. J Clin Diagn Res 2015 Nov; 9(11):LC 05-08. PMID: 26674553.

Awards

MNAMS- Membership National Academy of Medical Sciences (2019)

  1. Accredited teacher for DM Critical Care Medicine
  2. Accredited teacher for IDCCM (Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine)
  3. Elected Executive Member of Punjab state chapter of ISCCM (Sept. 2024)
  4. Elected Chairperson of Ludhiana branch of ISCCM (June. 2025)
  5. Certificate of recognition for outstanding contribution to Epidemiology Foundation of India(EFI)
  6. Awarded Women of substance by Unnati foundation for exemplary work.
  7. Awarded certificate of recognition for exemplary work in COVID
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