Dr. Mansi Dandnaik is an experienced Critical Care Specialist and Transplant Intensivist with over a decade of expertise in advanced critical care interventions, ECMO management, and academic contributions.
Qualifications
- MD (Anaesthesia)
- IDCCM – Indian Diploma in Critical Care Medicine
- EDICM – European Diploma in Critical Care Medicine
Special Training
- Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS)
- Advanced Hemodynamics
- Transplant Medicine
Years of Professional Experience
- 11 years of comprehensive experience in critical care practice
Areas of Expertise
- Management of sepsis and severe infections with multiorgan dysfunction
- Advanced ventilator support and complex respiratory failure
- ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) management
- Difficult weaning and prolonged ICU care
- Care of postoperative complicated patients
- Neuro-critical care
- Management of poisoning cases
Procedural Skills
- Advanced hemodynamic monitoring
- Advanced airway placement
- ECMO cannulation, maintenance, and weaning
- Bedside ultrasound and echocardiography
- Intercostal drainage tube insertion
Academic & Research Contributions
- Teacher for IDCCM/CTCCM curriculum
- Associate teacher for DNB Critical Care
- Faculty at national and state-level critical care conferences since 2018
- Research publications in various national and international medical journals
Publications
- International Journal of Current Research (2016)
- International Journal of Advances in Medicine (2019) – two publications
- Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine – INDICAP II (2021)
Authorship in Books & Critical Care Texts
Authored multiple chapters in recognized critical care textbooks, including:
- Indian Textbook of Critical Care Medicine (2024) – DAH management in ICU
- Manual of Oxygen Therapy (2022) – High-flow nasal cannula
- Critical Care Update (2021, 2022) – Topics including aerosol therapy and GI complications in COVID
- ECMO and RRT in Critically Ill (2020) – Nutrition in ECMO
- Critical Care Update (2020) – Post-resuscitation outcome optimization
- ICU Protocol Stepwise Approach (2019) – Post-tracheostomy care
- ECMO NAPCON (2019) – Anticoagulation on ECLS
- Medicine Update (2019) – Surviving sepsis guidelines
