Dr. Pratibha Dileep

Current:

• Critical Care and Hospital Infection Control Consultant at Zydus Hospitals.
• Critical Care Education Foundation Accredited Post Graduate Critical Care Course Director training 2 students for Fellowship each year.
• DNB Accredited Teacher for DNB Critical Care at Zydus Hospitals, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India since 2019.
• Chair-Person of the Infection Control Committee and Code Blue Committee, Zydus Hospitals, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

Education & Experience:

• MBBS in 1988 from BJMC Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
• MD Medicine 1991 from BJMC Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
• Trained in Critical Care under Dr. PK Jain at Sir HN Hospital, Bombay, India.
• Assistant Professor in Medicine at BJMC Ahmedabad for 3 years.
• Assistant Professor & In-charge, Critical Care, Sri Ramachandra Medical College Chennai for 5 years.
• Honorary Intensive Care Specialist at Sheth V.S. General Hospital for 2 years.
• Director of Department of Critical Care & Emergency Medicine at Sterling Hospital for 14 years.
• Founder Chairperson of ISCCM Ahmedabad Chapter, Gujarat, India.
• Member of the Editorial board of Critical Care Communication, Official Newsletter of ISCCM for the year April 2021 to April 2022.
• Currently practicing as a Critical Care Specialist & Hospital Infection Control Consultant in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India for the last 20 years.

AREAS OF INTEREST :

• Developing Critical Care Speciality and Hospital Infection Control Practices in Ahmedabad to the Current International Standards
• Training programs for Critical Care Medicine
• Peri & Post Operative Intensive Care
• Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Planning
• Management of Intoxications & Overdosages
• Modern Sepsis management
• ECMO & Rescue modes of ventilation for refractory hypoxemia
• Clinical Research in Critical Care

Latest Publications:

• Journal of IMA – Volume 118 No. 12 – December 2020 – Topic: “A Prospective Study of 200 Patients Admitted in a Tertiary ICU with Severe Acute Respiratory Infection to Develop a Pretest Probability Score of COVID 19 Infection, COV-SARI Score”
• Journal of the API – Volume 69 – October 2021: Topic: “Complicated Chikungunya Infection in Tertiary ICU in Western India – A Prospective Study Over 3 Years.”
• Critical Care Update 2022 (4th Edition) – Chapter 11 (Page No. 61-63): “Higher Dose of Antibiotics – When and Where?”
• Update in Covid 19 and Critical Care 2021 – Topic: “Structure, Process Modification and Preparedness for Pandemic”
• ISSCM - Critical Care Communication (Volume 16.1 - March-April - 2021) – Topic: “What’s new in NCC : ONSD”
• ISSCM - Critical Care Communication (Volume 16.2 - May-June - 2021) – Topic: “What’s in and What’s Out? in Covid”
• ISSCM - Critical Care Communication (Volume 16.3 - July-August - 2021) – Topic: “DNA Vaccines”
• ISSCM - Critical Care Communication (Volume 16.4 - September-October - 2021) – Topic: “How to Prepare and Manage a Pandemic”
• ISSCM - Critical Care Communication (Volume 16.5 - November-December - 2021) - Theme: “Post Pandemic Change in Medical Practice,” Topic: “CPR-FTR”
• ISSCM - Critical Care Communication (Volume 16.6 - January-February - 2022) - Theme: “Vision for Critical Care in Future,” Topic: “Critical Care Medicine in Next Decade”
• Wiley Journal (Mycoses: 2021, 64:1253-1260) (https://doi.org/10.1111/myc.13353) – Topic: “Mucormycosis and COVID 19: An Epidemic within a Pandemic in India.”
• Authored Two Chapters in Textbook of Clinical Gastroenterology Surgery on perioperative Critical Care of Critically Sick Surgical Patients
• Co-Author for the Section of Obstetric Critical Care (Section 6, Chapters 41, 42, 43 & 44) in Critical Care 1st Edition:
  • Physiology of Pregnancy
  • Respiratory Disorders during Pregnancy
  • Liver Diseases Complicating Pregnancy
  • Peripartum & Postpartum Intensive Care in Pregnancy
• Co-Author for a Chapter on “Approach to Fever in Immunocompromised Host (Non-HIV)” in Monograph Fever of Unknown Origin (2016).
• Wolters Kluwer: Clinical Spine Surgery: March 2022 - Volume 35 - Issue 2 - p 49-58 (https://doi.org/10.1097/BSD.0000000000001231) – Topic: Esophageal Perforation After Anterior Cervical Surgery - A Case Report and Literature Review.
• Indian Journal of Gastroenterology: 33, 484–486 (2014) (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12664-014-0470-2) – Topic: Primary hyperparathyroidism with pancreatitis: Experience of management in 5 patients with review of literature.
• The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India: December 2010 Volume 58 – Topic: Time trends in the epidemiology of microbial infections at a tertiary care center in west India over last 5 years.

Ongoing Studies:

• A prospective observational study of patients admitted in a tertiary hospital from 15th September 2020 onwards with “POST COVID Sequelae” for a period of 6 months.
• Participating in Multicenter prospective observational cohort study – SOLUTE Study.

Conferences :

• Presented paper and workshop in many national conferences.