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.