Dr. Kishor Khanal
Consultant and ICU Coordinator
Dr. Kishor Khanal is a highly experienced Consultant and ICU Coordinator at Nepal Mediciti, specializing in critical care medicine and anesthesiology. He earned his MBBS degree from Rajshahi Medical College in Bangladesh in 2010 through a prestigious scholarship from the Ministry of Education. Driven by a passion for critical care, he completed his MD in Anesthesiology at the Institute of Medicine (IOM), Kathmandu, Nepal, in 2015.
To further expand his expertise, Dr. Khanal undertook an externship in onco-critical care at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York, in 2016. In 2019, he completed a fellowship in Adult Intensive Care Medicine at Medanta – The Medicity, one of India’s leading hospitals, located in Gurgaon.
Dr. Khanal began his medical career as a Medical Officer in the Department of General Surgery at Mechi Zonal Hospital, Jhapa, serving from 2010 to 2012. Since then, he has held consultant roles in several prominent healthcare institutions, including Grande International Hospital (Kathmandu), Om Sai Pathibhara Hospital (Jhapa), and Shankarapur Hospital (Kathmandu).
With a strong background in comprehensive critical care, anesthesiology, and intensive care quality improvement, Dr. Khanal’s clinical interests include neurocritical care, management of complicated sepsis, infection control, and antibiotic stewardship programs. He is highly skilled in advanced airway management, ventilator strategies, and life-saving interventions, including Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS), and Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO).
Beyond his clinical duties, Dr. Khanal is actively involved in enhancing patient-family communication in the ICU. He is committed to raising public awareness about intensive care, debunking myths, and promoting transparency and trust in critical care services.
A respected academic contributor, Dr. Khanal has published extensively in national and international indexed medical journals, helping to shape the future of critical care medicine through research and education.
Education
Area of Focus
- Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
- Adult Intensive Care Medicine
- Onco-Critical Care
Language spoken
- ENGLISH
- NEPALI
- HINDI
- BENGALI
- MBBS, MD(Anesthesiology), Fellowship(Adult Intensive Care Medicine)
- Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy as a Complication/ Sequelae of Prolonged Refractory Seizure: A Case Report from Nepal; Archives of Anesthesia and Critical Care https://aacc.tums.ac.ir/index.php/aacc/article/view/377/546
- Pulmonary Mucormycosis secondary to Severe Acute Respiratory Illness due to Covid 19 Infection: A Case Report; Nepalese Respiratory Journal https://www.nepjol.info/index.php/nrj/article/view/45235
- Post COVID-19 vaccine Guillain-Barré syndrome; Journal of Nepal Health Research Council https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35615850/?utm_source=gquery
- Medication Dosing Error Leading to Potentially Lethal Methotrexate Toxicity; Austin Journal of Critical Care https://austinpublishinggroup.com/criticalcare/fulltext/criticalcare-v9-id1040.pdf
- Demystifying opportunistic infections in an AIDS patient of 21st century in Nepal; Journal of Advances in Internal Medicine https://www.nepjol.info/index.php/JAIM/article/view/42195/32096
- Retrospective analysis of the role of Ulinastatin in reducing mortality in severe pancreatitis in critical care unit in Nepal; Journal of Advances in Internal Medicine https://www.nepjol.info/index.php/JAIM/article/view/42154/32073
- Anesthesia For Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy In A Patient With Transverse Myelitis: A Case Report; Nepal Mediciti Medical Journal https://doi.org/10.3126/nmmj.v2i1.37221
- Ischemic Stroke as a Manifestation of Cholesterol Embolization Syndrome Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention; Kathmandu Univ Med J. http://www.kumj.com.np/issue/73/143-145.pdf
- A Comparative Study of Intrathecal Fentanyl and Intravenous Ondansetron for Prevention of Intraoperative Nausea and Vomiting During Cesarean Delivery under Spinal Anesthesia; J Anesth Clin Res. https://www.longdom.org/open-access/a-comparative-study-of-intrathecal-fentanyl-and-intravenous-ondansetron-for-prevention-of-intraoperative-nausea-and-vomi.pdf
- Diabetes mellitus as a risk factor for cryptococcal meningitis in immunocompetent; IDCases. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00988
- Comparison of outcome predictions by the Glasgow coma scale and the Full Outline of UnResponsiveness score in the neurological and neurosurgical patients in the Intensive Care Unit; Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine http://www.ijccm.org/text.asp?2016/20/8/473/188199
- Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis; Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4387838/
- Do not Resuscitate(DNR) Issues; The ICU Post, November 2013
- Medication Errors in ICU; The ICU post, November 2014
- Society of Anesthesiologists- Nepal (SAN)
- Nepalese Society of Critical Care Medicine (NSCCM)
- Nepal Medical Council (NMC)
- Education Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG)
