Lisie Hospital - Doctor Profile

Dr. Divya John
Senior Consultant

General Details

Qualifications

MBBS

Diploma in Anaesthesiology

DNB Anaesthesiology

Fellowship in Liver Transplant Anaesthesia& Critical Care
Achievements

Awards:

1. Gold Medal for the best outgoing D.A. student, Medical College, Trivandrum – 2006.

2. Third place in free paper presentation at ISACON Kerala – 2007, Calicut.

3. First prize in the Post Graduate Quiz competition conducted on 18-10-2008 to commemorate the World Anesthesia Day celebrations of 2008 organized by the ISA Trivandrum city branch.
Publications

Comparison of intravenous induction with propofol versus inhalation induction with sevoflurane: A prospective randomized controlled study.

Divya John, Rachel Cherian Koshy, Prathibha V K, Gopakumar G, Ranju Jayaprakash

National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy & Pharmacology.
Experience

Myexperience as an anaesthesiologist and critical care physician:

01. Preoperative assessment and optimisation of cases.
02. Anaesthetic management in the theatre.
03. Resuscitation and management of emergencies including cranial and spinal trauma, in the casualty emergency department and intensive care unit.
04. Intensive care with full responsibility of management of medical and surgical patients in the intensive care units of the hospital.
05. Regular performance of insertion of all invasive lines, upper airway endoscopy, percutaneous tracheostomy, tube thoracotomy, and involved in invasive CSF drainage.
06. Anaesthetic care and support to interventional radiological procedures.
07. Anaesthetic support for procedures outside the operating theatres, including imaging, procedural sedation, pain management, obstetric analgesia, transfer of ventilated patients.

Teaching experience in the field of Anaesthesiology:

01. Teacher for DNB trainees and thesis co-guide.
02. Teacher for the Masters in Emergency Medicine course (M.E.M).
03. Teacher for Diploma in anaesthesia and operation theatre technician course.
04. Involved in the teaching programme for student and staff nurses in Ananthapuri Hospital and Research Institute, Thiruvananthapuram.

Fields of expertise as anaesthesiologist:

01. Liver transplant anaesthesia.
02. Renal Transplant anaesthesia.
03. Neuroanaesthesia
04. Paediatric and neonatal anaesthesia.
05. Obstetric anaesthesia and labour analgesia.
06. Regional anaesthesia.
07. Difficult airway management.
08. Anaesthesia for oncosurgery.
09. Anaesthesia for high-risk cases.
10. Trauma management including cervical spine and CV junction trauma.
11. Critical care management.
12. Percutaneous tracheostomy.
13. Fiber optic bronchoscopy.
14. Ultrasound guided vascular access.