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Dr. Pooja Baliga

Hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, Liver Transplant

MBBS, MD (Anaesthesiology) DESAIC, FLTA Consultant – Department of Liver Transplant & Hepatobiliary – Pancreatic Anaesthesia

Profile

Dr. Pooja Baliga has over 8 years of experience in Anaesthesiology in multiple specialities like Oncoanaesthesia, Neuroanaesthesia and Cardiac Anaesthesia. She found her passion in Liver Transplantation and has been involved in Perioperative Care of over 900 Liver Transplants and independently administered Anaesthesia care to over 200 Liver Transplants, over 100 Hepatobiliary Pancreatic Surgeries and over 1000 Gastrointestinal Surgeries. She has also been the lead Anaesthesiologist for Interventional Radiology in a high-volume transplant centre. She enjoys teaching and has actively designed the academic curriculum for Liver Transplant Anaesthesia Fellowship Program and has trained sedation nurses.

She aims to improvise current practices and participate in innovations that would improve short-term and long-term outcomes for both liver transplant donors and recipients and is keen on promoting pledging of organs and hopes for the day to come soon where in deceased donor pool will significantly expand in our country.

Area Of Interest

  • Holistic care and pain management of living donors, both open and robotic
  • Enhanced Recovery After Surgery for liver transplant recipients
  • Pre-operative optimization and prehabilitation in liver transplant recipients
  • Cirrhotic Cardiomyopathy
  • Perioperative Trans-oesophageal Echocardiography utility in liver transplantation
  • Theatre Infection Prevention and Control

Society Affiliations:

  • International Liver Transplant Society Anaesthesia Committee
  • Liver Transplant Society of India
  • European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care
  • Indian Society of Anaesthesiology
  • Association of Target Control Infusion and Total Intravenous Anaesthesiologist
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