Dr. Dev Lakshmeesh

Introduction

Expertise

• Dr. Dev is a diligent pulmonology and critical care specialist with over 9 years of experience.
• He brings a wealth of diverse experience, honed in both high-pressure corporate critical care settings and pulmonology clinics, as well as the unique challenges of emergency medicine too.
• Dr. Dev’s expertise lies in the following areas:
  • Leading code blue and rapid response team calls in the hospital, reviving and resuscitating critically ill patients, and shifting them to the ICU.
  • Decision-making at the patient bedside with respect to day-to-day management of ICU at the macro and micro levels.
  • Liaising with critical care allied fields for prompt patient management.
  • Advanced airway and vascular access procedures performed in the ICU, namely endotracheal intubation, percutaneous tracheostomy, central line insertion, and dialysis catheter insertion.
  • Critical care procedures like temporary pacemaker insertion, pleural fluid tapping and ICD insertions, intra-aortic balloon insertion, and independent performance of bronchoscopies and medical thoracoscopies.
  • Mechanical ventilation and hemodynamic monitoring
  • Infection control and antibiotic stewardship
  • Management of OPD and IPD follow-ups for pulmonology patients, including drug-resistant pulmonary TB patients.
  • NIV management and rehabilitative management of ILD and obstructive airway diseases.

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