Dr. Kartik Karan

Professional Summary Detail-oriented and adaptable Anaesthesiology Resident with extensive hands-on experience in comprehensive perioperative care, critical care management, and advanced hemodynamic monitoring.

• Perioperative Care: Conducted thorough pre-anesthetic risk assessments, formulated tailored anesthetic plans, and continuously monitored complex physiological parameters to maintain optimal patient stability.
• Pain Management: Administered targeted acute and postoperative pain management therapies, utilizing regional blocks and multimodal analgesia to enhance recovery.
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Coordinated with surgeons, attending physicians, and nursing staff to ensure cohesive multidisciplinary patient care.
• Managed surgical caseloads across various specialties, providing comprehensive anesthetic care tailored to individual patient needs.
• Pediatric & Neonatal: Managed highly sensitive anesthetic requirements and physiological monitoring for complex pediatric and neonatal surgical interventions.
• Neuroanaesthesia: Conducted anaesthesia for high-acuity neurosurgical procedures, including aneurysm clipping, SDH/hematoma evacuations, and spinal tumor excisions.
• High-Risk General & Oncology: Provided precise anesthetic management for surgical oncology, renal transplant, and emergency gastrointestinal perforations/obstructions.
• Multidisciplinary Surgeries: Delivered comprehensive perioperative care across routine and emergency orthopedic, ENT, and obstetrics/gynecological procedures.

Responded to critical care challenges by implementing crisis management protocols that stabilized patients during acute situations.

• Intraoperative Emergencies: Successfully resolved acute, life-threatening airway and hemodynamic crises, including severe laryngospasm, bronchospasm, anaphylaxis, and shock.
• Surgical Complications: Swiftly navigated and stabilized complex surgical emergencies, including Bone Cement Implantation Syndrome and Fat Embolism Syndrome.
• Intensive Care Unit (ICU): Managed critically ill patients, overseeing complex resuscitations, continuous hemodynamic stabilization, and advanced life support interventions.

Academic & Research Contributions

• Clinical Research: Conducted and finalized primary research evaluating pre-operative and end-operative gastric volume estimation utilizing Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) in pediatric patients.

• Managed acute post-operative stabilization and recovery of pediatric surgical patients, achieving optimal vital signs and promoting swift recovery.
• Delivered comprehensive daily medical care and continuous monitoring for critically ill pediatric patients in PICU.
• Conducted routine clinical assessments and administered prescribed therapies, monitoring patient progress to facilitate effective recovery.
• Collaborated with primary pediatricians, surgeons, and nursing staff to implement tailored treatment plans that addressed individual patient needs.