Dr. Kishor Khanal
Consultant and ICU Coordinator
Dr. Kishor Khanal serves as the Consultant and ICU Coordinator at Nepal Mediciti. He completed his MBBS from Rajshahi Medical College in Bangladesh in 2010 under a scholarship from the Ministry of Education. He pursued his MD in Anesthesiology at the Institute of Medicine in Kathmandu, Nepal, graduating in 2015. Further enhancing his expertise, Dr. Khanal undertook an externship in onco-critical care at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York, in 2016, followed by a formal fellowship in Adult Intensive Care Medicine at Medanta - The Medicity in Gurgaon, India, in 2019. His initial experience included working as a medical officer in the Department of General Surgery at Mechi Zonal Hospital in Jhapa from 2010 to 2012.
Dr. Khanal has a rich professional history in critical care and anesthesiology. He has served as a Consultant in various institutions, including Grande International Hospital in Kathmandu, Om Sai Pathibhara Hospital in Jhapa, and Shankarapur Hospital in Kathmandu. His expertise spans comprehensive care and process development, critical care quality improvement, and neurocritical care. He is also well-versed in managing complicated sepsis, infection control, and antibiotic stewardship programs, as well as advanced airway and ventilator management. Dr. Khanal is proficient in Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Point of Care Ultrasound Scanning (POCUS), and Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO).
In addition to his clinical roles, Dr. Khanal is dedicated to improving public awareness and bridging communication gaps between ICU teams and patients' families. He has authored numerous publications in international and national indexed journals, contributing to the field’s knowledge base. His commitment to critical care is reflected in his efforts to debunk myths about intensive care units and foster better understanding and trust with patients and their families.
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)
