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Dr Saket Sharma (Patna Branch)
pulmonologist
pulmonology
About
Dr. Saket Sharma is Sr. Consultant, Pulmonary Medicine in Jay Prabha Medanta Super Speciality Hospital, Patna. He completed his MD from IMS, BHU, Varanasi and DM (Pulmonary and Critical Care) from SJH – VMMC, New Delhi. He specializes in treating obstructive diseases, pleural disorders and performing procedures such as bronchoscopy, thoracoscopy and endobronchial ultrasound.
He specialises in treatment of all kind of pulmonary diseases such as obstructive airway diseases (Asthma/COPD, difficult to control asthma), ILDs, Tuberculosis (MDR/XDR TB), sleep breathing disorders (OSA, OHS) and various pleural disorder. He performs various interventional procedures such as Bronchoscopy/EBUS /Thoracoscopy/image guided lung/pleural biopsy and various pleural procedure such as pleural aspiration and ICTD placement.
Awards
- Awarded silver medal in Forensic Medicine.
- All India rank 1 in DM entrance examination (2013, conducted by Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi)
- Paper “efficacy and safety of salbutamol in high doses by MDI in patients with acute bronchial asthma.”
- Achieved 2nd place in ICS DR JC KOTARI YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD SESSION at NAPCON, 2010 held at Jodhpur.
Treatments / Specialities
- Obstructive – diseases (ASTHMA /COPD)
- Bronchoscopy /EBUS/ Thoracoscopy
- Pulmonary Tuberculosis (MDR, XDR TB)
- Pleural disorders
- Sleep breathing disorders (OSA, OHS)
Membership
- Indian Chest Society.
- American Thoracic Society.
- American Society of Sleep Medicine.
- Chest Council of India.
- European Respiratory Society.
Paper Published
- Predictive Value for Adverse Outcome : Six-Minute Walk Test in Patients with COPD of Varying Severity and Its Predictive Value for Adverse Outcome (Chest. 2010; 138:492A), 2010
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease : Evaluation of BODE index, ADO index and Updated BODE index as a predictor of hospital admission in patients with Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Am J Respir Crit Care Med 183; 2011) 3- Utility of NIV via Face Mask in Type II Respiratory Failure Due to Exacerbations of Acute Severe Asthma (Chest. 2010; 138:707A), 2010
- Early management of acute exacerbations of asthma : Utility of inhaled corticosteroids (fluticasone/formoterol) by pressurized Metered – dose inhaler for the early management of acute exacerbations of asthma (E5476 ers 22nd September 2010) 5- Utility of non-invasive ventilation as first-line intervention in respiratory Failure due to acute exacerbation of asthma., 2010
- HIV infection in patients of pulmonary Tuberculosis : Prevalence of urban vs. rural HIV infection in patients of pulmonary Tuberculosis: An Indian scenario (ers September 2010) , 2010
- Patients with tuberculous empyema : Characteristics and prognostic indicators in patients with tuberculous empyema scientific@ersnet.org.,
- H1N1 PANDEMIC : Review article in criticare update (annual critical care meet conducted by department of anesthesia, IMS BHU) ,
- Lung cancer in Bihari population : Presented paper “ALK/ROS1 rearrangement in non-small cell lung cancer in Bihari population” in NAPCON 2019 Kochi, 2019
- AbstrClinical profile of Tropical Pulmonary Eosinophilia in Bihar : Abstract “Clinical profile of Tropical Pulmonary Eosinophilia in Bihar, India” got selected for ERS 2020., 2020
- AbstrClinical profile of Tropical Pulmonary Eosinophilia in Bihar : Abstract “Clinical profile of Tropical Pulmonary Eosinophilia in Bihar, India” got selected for ERS , 2020 : AbstrClinical profile of Tropical Pulmonary Eosinophilia in Bihar
