Dr. Shakti Swaroop, Senior Consultant, Liver Transplant Anaesthesia

Qualification:

DNB, Anesthesia & Critical Care (Apollo Hospitals)

Fellowship in Liver Transplant Anaesthesia & Critical Care (Medanta, The Medicity)

Professional Synopsis:

Dr. Shakti is a dynamic liver transplant anesthesiologist with experience in more than 500 successful liver transplants and more than 1000 hepatobiliary cases. He has got vast expertise in dealing with sick and critical cirrhotic patients and managing them well to send them back home healthy. He is well versed in dealing with more than 700 cases of patients undergoing complex robotic surgeries. Dr. Swaroop has also been associated with many successful liver transplantations in different countries like Myanmar, Bangladesh and Uzbekistan. Dr. Swaroop has been a key member and has been instrumental in 1st ever liver transplants in Madhya Pradesh (Bhopal & Indore), Chhattisgarh (Raipur), and North-eastern states of India (Guwahati) and at Odisha (Bhubaneswar) and in setting up liver transplant centres in these states. He has been instrumental in postoperative critical care of the patients in the various centres in the country and abroad.

Dr. Shakti Swaroop is one of the few anaesthesiologists in India who has anaesthetised patients for Liver transplant, Heart transplant, Kidney transplant, Pancreas transplant as well as multi-organ transplants, such as combined liver-kidney transplant, combined pancreas- kidney transplant, combined heart-lung transplant.

Affiliations:

Honorary Faculty, University of Medicine, Mandalay, Myanmar.

Honorary Faculty, Vakhidov Republican Surgical Center for Training and Research, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Honorary Professor and Faculty, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University and Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Honorary Faculty, SOA University and SUM Hospital, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

Areas of Interest:

• Fast-tracking in liver transplantation.
• Living donor liver transplantation.
• Peri-operative management of acute liver failure.
• Paediatric liver transplantation.
• ABO incompatible liver transplantation.
• Anaesthesia in minimally invasive, robotic hepatobiliary surgeries and VATS.
• Anaesthesia for ALPPS procedure.
• Normothermic machine perfusion of liver grafts.

Skills:

• Expert in management of difficult airway management.
• WINFOCUS certified diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasonography expert.
• Expert in flexible fibre optic bronchoscope aided intubation.
• Percutaneous tracheostomy.
• Regional anaesthesia and analgesia.
• Expert in advanced hemodynamic and coagulation monitoring.
• Expert in advanced Neuro-monitoring.

Professional Memberships:

• International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS),
• Liver Transplant Society of India (LTSI),
• Liver Transplant Anaesthesia and Critical Care Society of India (LITRACSI)
• Indian Society of Anesthesiologist (ISA)
• Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM).