Dr N Saravanapandian
Brief Profile
Dr. Saravanapandian N is a Senior Consultant Pediatric Intensivist with over 10 years of experience in pediatric critical care. His areas of expertise include management of critically ill children requiring post-liver transplant, bone marrow transplant and hemato-oncologic critical care.
He has extensive experience in advanced pediatric intensive care, including ECMO, CRRT, plasmapheresis and transplant-related critical care. He has also been involved in PICU leadership, clinical care, teaching and mentoring of postgraduate trainees, fellows and nursing staff.
Profile at a Glance
- Over 10 years of experience in pediatric critical care
- Managed approximately 100 pediatric liver transplants annually in the liver transplant ICU
- Experience in post-BMT and hemato-oncological critical care
- Oversaw a 7-bedded general PICU and liver transplant ICU
- Managed advanced critical care therapies including ECMO, CRRT and plasmapheresis
- Experience in liver, kidney, bone marrow and cardiac transplant-related critical care
- Leadership experience in PICU operations and administration
Educational Qualifications
- MBBS, including CRRI internship – Madurai Medical College, Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Tamil Nadu
- MD – Pediatrics – SAT Hospital, Government Medical College, Trivandrum, Kerala, University of Health Sciences
- FNB – Pediatric Critical Care – National Board of Examinations, Apollo Children’s Hospitals, Chennai
Experience
Dr. Saravanapandian N is a Senior Consultant Pediatric Intensivist with over 10 years of experience in pediatric critical care.
Awards & Recognitions
- Accredited Teacher, IAP – Pediatric Intensive Care Chapter
Presentations & Publications
- Acute liver failure in children – Indian Journal of Emergency Pediatrics, 2010; 2(4):199–208.
- Prevalence & risk factors of asthma in South Indian school children – Nepal Journal of Epidemiology, 2012; 2(1):171–178.
- Pseudohypoaldosteronism Type 1 in neonates – Journal of Clinical Neonatology, 2012; 1(4):224–226.
- Liver function tests – IAP Specialty Series on Pediatric Gastroenterology, Jaypee, 2013:179–188.
- Spine and spinal cord injury in children – Journal of Pediatric Critical Care, 2017; 4(1):57–66.
- Outcomes of pediatric liver transplantation in PFIC – Pediatric Transplantation, 2023; e14600.
Area of Expertise
- Pediatric Critical Care
- Pediatric Intensive Care
- Post-liver transplant critical care
- Bone marrow transplant (BMT) critical care
- Hemato-oncologic critical care
- ECMO
- Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT)
- Plasmapheresis
- Liver transplant critical care
- Kidney transplant critical care
- Cardiac transplant critical care
- PICU leadership and administration
- Clinical research and publications
Conditions Treated
- Critically ill pediatric patients requiring intensive care
- Post-liver transplant complications requiring critical care
- Post-bone marrow transplant critical illness
- Hemato-oncological critical illness
- Acute liver failure in children
- Severe pediatric conditions requiring ECMO
- Severe renal dysfunction requiring CRRT
- Conditions requiring plasmapheresis
- Pediatric transplant-related critical illness
- Pediatric liver transplantation-related critical care
- Member – Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP)
- Member – Intensive Care Chapter, IAP
- Member – Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine
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