Dr. Sanjith Saseedharan

Dr Sanjith is a critical care consultant .After completing his anesthesia from sion hospital he went on to
pursue his critical care diploma from the Ruby Hall clinic neurotrauma unit ,Pune. Subsequently he
completed a fellowship of neurotrauma critical care at the Hadassah university teaching hospital at
Israel under Prof Charles Weissman and Charles Sprung.He is the only Indian doctor to hold this kind of a
speciality in India. During this stint he understood the nuances of objectivity in neurotrauma and
criticare care nutrition.
He has also completed the European diploma in critical care from Brussels. His line of interest lies in
neurotrauma critical care ,mechanical ventilation and nutrition in the critically ill patient.
He is an excellent orator and is a teacher of critical care for the indian society of critical care medicine
and nursing ,college of intensive care medicine and the Maharashtra university of health sciences. He is
also the teacher for the advanced certification in respiratory technology.
His infectious interest in critical care has rubbed onto the icu at Raheja where care is evidenced
based,with optimum use of technology like FRC calculation and transpulmonary pressure for mechanical
ventilation, use of indirect calorimetry ,use of functional hemodynamic monitoring like volumetric
parameters, EV 1000,PICCO,scvo2 and SJVo2 to name a few.
He has 88 peer reviewed articles and presentations in peer reviewed journals ,written 1 book, 8 book
chapters,8 best research paper awards to his credit ,a gold medal award winning patented software in
the field of critical care nutrition, best innovation award for a technological patient interface called as vocalizer and has been a faculty in a number of national and international conferences. He remains the organising secretary of the very sought after annual mechanical ventilation workshop and the nutrition boot camp year after year.He also been felicitated with awards for best doctor in critical care- Mumbai by the Week and outlook year after year. His infectious interest in critical care has rubbed onto the icu at Raheja where care is evidenced based,with optimum use of technology like FRC calculation and transpulmonary pressure for mechanical ventilation, use of indirect calorimetry ,use of functional hemodynamic monitoring like volumetric parameters, EV 1000,PICCO,scvo2 and SJVo2 to name a few. Dr.Sanjith presently heads the dept of critical care at the s.L.Raheja hospital -a fortis associate.