Dr. Kumar S R
Dr. Kumar finished his Graduation (DCH) from JJMMC Davangere under the guidance of Dr M L Kulkarni, Dr Banapurmath, Dr Guruprasad. After completing the Graduation, he moved to Hyderabad for higher studies. He joined Rainbow children’s hospital as a DNB resident. He worked for 4 1/2 years. During his tenure as a DNB resident, he was trained in NICU and PICU managing sick children and neonates. Rainbow Children’s Hospital and Perinatal Centre, Hyderabad is a 250 bedded exclusively Paediatric super speciality hospital and major tertiary care referral centre with 40 neonatal ICU beds and 14 paediatric ICU beds. The hospital handles around 5,000 inpatients per annum. It has the state of the art intensive care setup in neonatology and paediatrics with facilities to ventilate 22 children including 10 neonates at a time and carries out high-frequency oscillatory ventilation and nitric oxide inhalation therapy regularly. It has a very well equipped transport unit to transport sick neonates and children.
He has been trained in Level III PICU.
Dr Kumar has been working in the field of Paediatrics from the past 10 years and Neonatology for 6 years. Currently, he is attached to HIMS & Mani Super Speciality Hospital as Chief Neonatologist.
He has good experience in managing sick newborns, Extreme premature babies, Asphyxiated babies, Septic babies, Cardiac and surgical neonates
He has a special interest in ventilated newborns including conventional and High-frequency ventilation. He has also dealt with sick babies with Persistent pulmonary hypertension requiring Inhaled nitric oxide.
He has also experience in Cooling in asphyxiated newborns.
He has experience in newborns with complex congenital heart disease and managing them preoperatively and postoperatively. He is involved with Paediatric surgical team handling a variety of diseases like Tracheoesophageal fistula, congenital diaphragmatic hernia, omphalocele, Gut malrotation etc.
- Attended deliveries of multiple gestations (triplets and quadruplets) as a part of the neonatal team and subsequently gained good experience in neonatal resuscitation and lifesaving procedures.
- Procedures skills-As a neonatologist he has good procedural skills in
- IV line insertion
- Umbilical venous catheterisation
- Umbilical arterial catheterisation
- Lumbar puncture, PICC line insertion
- Endotracheal intubation
- Exchange blood transfusion
- Peripheral arterial cannulation
- Peritoneal Dialysis
- Fine Skills in managing Ventilated Newborns and aim at ventilating newborns in the best possible way.
- Fastest skills in managing sick newborns from the time of admission till stabilization.
Specialized Training
- Facility-based integrated management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness (F-IMNCI) (TOT) training under the National rural health mission (NRHM) at Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health, Bengaluru held in 2005.
- IAP – GOLDEN HOUR MANAGEMENT course at Rainbow Children’s hospital, Hyderabad held in 2009.
- Respiratory disorders and Basic Ventilation course – at Rainbow Children’s hospital, Hyderabad held in 2009.
- Basic Paediatric Intensive care course – at Rainbow Children’s hospital, Hyderabad held in 2009.
- Paediatric Advanced life support (Provider course) – 2014 under Indian Academy of Paediatrics in accordance with the standard of American heart association, held at M S Ramaiah hospital Bengaluru 2014
- Paediatric Advanced life support (Instructor course) – October 2014 (PALS) under Indian academy of paediatrics in accordance with the standard of American heart association, held at Manipal hospital Bengaluru 2014
- Neonatal resuscitation programme (NRP India Provider course) at Mehta’s Hospital, Chennai held on 25th December 2014.
- Advanced ventilation workshop in neonates at M.S. Ramaiah Medical college Bengaluru held on July 2014
- Developmental Supportive care workshop – held at St John’s Medical college Bengaluru held in 2014
- NEONATAL EMERGENCY SIMULATION WORKSHOP held in OVUM Hospital Bengaluru 2015
- Bedside Neonatal NEUROSONOGRAM and ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY held at Manipal hospital Bengaluru 2015.