Dr. Sumita Agrawal
Consultant - Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
About
Dr. Sumita Agrawal is working as Consultant - Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine at Medipulse hospital, Jodhpur. She specializes in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine is the first Super Specialist in Pulmonary Medicine in Western Rajasthan.
She's an expert in diseases like COPD, Asthma, ILD, occupational lung diseases like Silicosis, Sleep apnea, lung cancer, pneumonia, pleural disorders, Tuberculosis.
She performs procedures like bronchoscopy, EBUS, thoracoscopy, intercostal drainage, and sleep studies and has been trained at in the United Kingdom and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi with many publications to her credit.
Patients with symptoms like breathlessness (dama), cough, blood in cough, lung cancer, TB, fluid in the lungs often consult her.
Qualification:
MBBS - Grant Medical College and Sir J.J. Group of Hospitals, Mumbai, India - 2001-2006
MD (Medicine) - Grant Medical College and Sir J.J. Group of Hospitals, Mumbai, India - 2008-2011
MRCP(UK) - Royal College of Physicians, UK - April 2013
DM (Pulmonary & Critical Care) - Vardhaman Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India - 2015-2018
FSM (Fellowship in Sleep Medicine) - Indian Sleep Disorders Association - April 2019
+ Expertise
- COPD
- Asthma
- Interstitial Lung Diseases
- Bronchoscopy and EBVS Sleep Medicine.
+ Contact Information
Medipulse, E-4, MIA, Basni-II, Jodhpur - 342005 (Raj.)
8239345661
Special COVID timing implemented from 23/9/2020 : 10.30 AM to 2.00 PM
+ Languages
- Hindi
- English
+ Memberships & Certifications
Member of Royal Collage of Physicians (UK)
Member of European Respiratory Society
Member of Indian Chest Society.
Member of Indian Sleep Disorder Association.
+ Experience
Assistant Professor- General Medicine at Grant Medical College: August 2011- February 2013
Senior Resident - General Medicine at Grant Medical College: March 2013-August 2014
Senior Clinical Fellow-Intensive Care Medicine at Manchester Royal Infirmary (UK): October 2014- July 2015
DM resident at Vardhaman Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital: August 2015 to July 2018
+ Research and Experience
Agrawal SP, Ish P, Goel AD, Gupta N, Chakrabarti S, Bhattacharya D, Sen MK, Suri JC. Diagnostic utility of endobronchial ultrasound features in differentiating malignant and benign lymph nodes. Monaldi Arch Chest Dis. 2018 Jun 25; 88(2): 928. doi: 10.4081/monaldi.2018.928. PubMed PMID: 29936788.
Goel AD, Akarte SV, Agrawal SP, Yadav V. Longitudinal assessment of depression, stress, and burnout in medical students. J Neurosci Rural Pract. 2016 Oct-Dec;7(4):493-498. PMCID: PMC5006458.
Agrawal SP, Goel AD. Prone position ventilation in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: An overview of the evidences. Indian J Anaesth. 2015 Apr;59(4):246-8. doi: 10.4103/0019-5049.155004.
Agrawal S, Deshpande A. A unique presentation of multiple myeloma in an HIV patient. Indian J Med Res. 2013 Apr;137(4):815-6. PMCID: PMC3724269.
Agrawal S, Bharti V, Jain MN, Purkar PD, Verma A, Deshpande AK. Sjogren's syndrome presenting with hypokalemic periodic paralysis. J Assoc Physicians India. 2012 Jul;60:55-6. PubMed PMID: 23405545
Hemant R Gupta HR, Agrawal S, Mangaonkar AA, Bera B, Gholape, DB. An unusual case of Central Diabetes Insipidus (CDI) associated with Hyponatremia and Periventricular Ischemia. Asian Journal of Health and Medical Sciences; vol.1(1):45-477.
Ankur Sharma, Akhil Dhanesh Goel, Prem Prakash Sharma, Varuna Vyas, Sumita Pravesh Agrawal.The Effect of Transversus Abdominis Plane Block for Analgesia in Patients undergoing Liver Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Turkish Journal of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation. Accepted for publication.
Nitesh Gupta, Mahendran AJ, Shibdas Chakrabati, Sumita Agrawal. Air Outside the Airways: An Unusual Complication of Asthma!- case report. Advances in Respiratory Medicine. Accepted for publication.
Innovations -
Designed and complied mobile app on Trials in Respiratory diseases called: “Chestpost”
- itunes.apple.com/in/app/chest-post/id1442500166?mt=8
- play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ChestPost
Doctor Speaks
In the battle against Omicron, vaccines continue to offer important protection against covid-19. Vaccination stimulates the body's immune response to the virus, which not only protects from the variants currently in circulation- including Omicron but is also likely to protect from future variants.
With a spike in Omicron cases, more and more children, especially ones in the unvaccinated category including children are more at risk of getting the infection. Children between 15-18 years of age are eligible for vaccination right now, and every child must get vaccinated to reduce the mutation of the virus
As Omicron is not the only SARS-CoV-2 variant with mutations in the spike protein that can exhibit similar behavior as other variants, it is difficult to diagnose whether the patients are infected from Omicron or any other variant. According to our experts, the ability of an RT-PCR Covid19, test is proven to be a useful diagnostic tool to identify and isolate carriers of the Omicron variant.
Omicron is another COVID19 variant. According to our doctor, this new variant has a higher infectivity rate which means even the least amount of exposure is harmful to you. But the upside to Omicron is that it is mild in nature, which means fewer hospitalizations and faster recovery. Even though, we suggest you mask up and be safe