Dr. Kishor Khanal

Associate Consultant and Intensivist & ICU Coordinator

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He did his MBBS from Rajshahi Medical College (Rajshahi, Bangladesh) in the year 2010 under the scholarship scheme of Ministry of Education. He completed his MD in Anesthesiology from Institute of Medicine (Kathmandu, Nepal) in the year 2015. Afterwards, he did an externship in onco-critical care in 2016 from Roswell Park Cancer Institute (Buffalo, New York). In 2019, he completed formal fellowship in Adult Intensive Care Medicine from Medanta- The Medicity (Gurgaon, India). Following his medical school, he worked as a medical officer in the department of general surgery in Mechi Zonal Hospital, Jhapa from 2010-2012. Following his master’s degree, he worked as an anesthesiologist and critical care physician in different hospitals. He has been working as a consultant in the department of critical care medicine in Nepal Mediciti since 2017. He has many publications in international and national indexed journals; he is also a well-known faculty in many national and international conferences and workshops. During his carrier he won many awards and recognition certificates. 

He has been working to raise public awareness to debunk the myths of intensive care units and bridge the gap of communication and trust with the patient families.

Post held in past

• Consultant, Department Critical Care Medicine, Grande International Hospital, Kathmandu
• Consultant and Head, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Om Sai Pathibhara Hospital, Jhapa
• Consultant, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical care, Shankarapur Hospital, Kathmandu
• Consultant, Department of Anesthesiology

Fields of Experience

• Comprehensive care and process development
• Critical Care Quality Improvement
• Critical Care research
• Neurocritical Care
• Complicated sepsis management
• Infection control and antibiotic stewardship program
• Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) 
• Advanced airway management
• Advanced ventilator management
• Point of Care Ultrasound Scanning (POCUS)
• Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)

Key Procedures Performed

• Percutaneous tracheostomy
• USG guided hemodynamics
• Advanced hemodynamics using ‘Volume View’ and ‘Flowtrac’ 
• Transcranial doppler 
• Invasive lines and drains

Interests

• Learning new skills in artificial intelligence and machine learning , applying the same in treating critically ill patients.
• Involving in public awareness on most common critical care conditions and helping them to timely reach tertiary care intensive care unit 
• Training different allied health care professions in taking care of critically ill patients 
• Conducting projects on the use of Antimicrobials and patterns of Antimicrobial resistance

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