Prakash Palaghat Venkatachalam Saptharishi

• To keep updating the knowledge in clinical perfusion and use the clinical experience gained over the years to train and guide upcoming perfusionist
• Attentive and goal-focused brings successful approach to cultivating complex best practices to meet organizational and regulatory expectations
• Detail-oriented focus on achieving expected outcomes

• Consultant & Head of Perfusion Department
• Associate Professor in RGUHS
• Director of Examinations - BCPI
• Ex- General Secretary - ISCET

IGNOU New Delhi, 01/2012, 06/2014, Diploma in management (PGDIM)

• Bangalore University, 09/2009, 10/2010, PG – Diploma in Hospital Administration
• Bakken Education Center (Medtronic India Ltd)/Certified by IACTVS, 1991, 1992, PG – Diploma in Perfusion Technology
• Coimbatore Institute of Technology under Bharathiar University Coimbatore, 1990, 1991, PG- Diploma in Medical Instrumentation Technology
• Coimbatore Institute of Technology under Bharathiar University Coimbatore, 1987, 1990, BSc in Applied Science

• 30 Years, > 10,000 cases

• Three times “Best Paper” award winner at Indian Society of Extra Corporeal Technology (ISECT) Perfusion Annual Conferences
• Trained and certified in Handling Perfusion Accidents from Berlin Heart Institute – 25th & 26th, October 2017.
• Have visited the BOLOGNE, Italy Manufacturing plant of Oxygenators of LIVANOVA as a special guest to give feedback on the oxygenators performance and efficiency in July 2018.

• Certified Clinical Perfusionist (CCP) - Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion - INDIA
• Heartmate 2 Training Certification
• Good clinical Practice Certification

• Faculty– CPB Simulation – Terumo Training – Philippines heart Centre – February 2024
• Faculty– Simulation program at IACTVS – February 2024
• Speaker– Livanova – advance training program Singapore – Mishaps in perfusion – Failure analysis and prevention – 2023 August
• Meritorious Paper Award - ISECTCON 2014
• “Efficacy of NIRS monitoring for ensuring adequacy of perfusion in Aortic Arch Aneurysms Repairs. A Retrospective Analysis
• NIRS as guideline to regulate the perfusion flows to avoid cerebral injury in paediatrics’ Presented at Trivandrum ISECT Conference 2014
• Is it Possible to avoid Blood Prime in Paediatric and Neonatal CPB” - Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Convention Centre Mumbai in May 2014 at paediatric Update
• Presented a Guest Lecture to Post Graduate students of Cardiac Surgery on “Principles of Cardiopulmonary Bypass and Expanding Scope” in the First Postgraduate Operative skills Workshop September 2013 held at GKNM Coimbatore
• Presented a Guest lecture on “Future of Perfusion in India” at ISECTCON2012 National Conference Kolkata
• Dialysis during ECMO Presented at a CME on ECMO held at Kottayam Kerala on March 2014
• “ECMO Management Our Experience” Presented as a faculty at a Perfusion Update Programme conducted at Ahmedabad on August 2011
• 10 Years from now…… Perfusion (Indian Scenario) Presented at Perfutech a Perfusion update conducted by Medtronic India ltd on 2010 Bangalore
• Best paper award winning Gold Medal - ISECTCON 2010
• “Paediatric ECMO Management” (Late Kaushlya Devi Mahajan Memorial Award, also published in the IJECT 2011 Issue
• Accidents in Perfusion” received Kuppuswamy Memorial award silver medal at ISECTCON-2007 held at Jaipur

• Age : 54 yrs
• Date of Birth : 04/15/70
• Gender : Male
• Nationality : Indian
• Marital Status : Married
• Religion : Hindu

• Our Micronate Circuit for Neonates ( Presented at ISECT annual Conference at Mumbai 2012 )
• Our techniques to reduce priming volume by circuit alterations and pump position ( Presented at the ISECT annual conference at Kolkata 2011)

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• I do hereby declare that the particulars of information and facts stated above are true,correct and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

• 4th International Pediatric Perfusion Symposium Singapore October 26-27 2013
• Berlin Heart Institute - 2017
• Pediatric Perfusion Conference Miami (US) - 2014

• Pediatric ECMO Management in ICU - Journal of Indian society of Extracorporeal Technology - 2011 Edition
• Gold Directed Perfusion - Decision making and Challenges in management - RGUHS journal - 2020

• Dr.Devi Prasad Shetty,

     Chairman and Senior Consultant cardiac Surgeon,

     Narayana Hrudayalaya Institute of Medical Sciences, 

     Bangalore 99,

    +919980071199

• Dr.Colin John,

        Senior Consultant cardiac surgeon and Head of Pediatric Division,

        Narayana Hrudayalaya Institute of Medical Sciences,

        Bangalore 99,

      +919980094590

• Dr. Praveen Kumar,

       Medical Director and Senior Consultant cardiac surgeon,

       Narayana Hrudayalaya Institute of Medical Sciences, 

       Bangalore 99, 

       09845033623