Prof. Dr. A S Arunkumar

Meet Our Expert Intensivist – Prof. Dr. A S Arunkumar | Leading Critical Care with 28+ Years of Excellence

Introduction of Prof. Dr. A S Arunkumar:

Prof. Dr. A S Arunkumar

MBBS, MD (Anesthesiology), EDIC (Belgium)

Clinical Lead, Intensive Care Unit

Professional Experience of Prof. Dr. A S Arunkumar: 

More than 28 Years of Experience

Education of Prof. Dr. A S Arunkumar:

• MBBS, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, India.
• MD (Anesthesiology), Kasturba Medical College, (MAHE). Mangalore, India.
• European Diploma in Intensive Care (EDIC), Belgium.

Areas of Specialization of Prof. Dr. A S Arunkumar:

• Mechanical ventilation
• Prone ventilation
• Hemodynamic monitoring
• Perioperative critical care
• Obstetric critical care
• Sepsis and septic shock
• Critical Care nutrition
• Polytrauma
• Infection control
• Quality systems in critical care

Awards and Achievement of Prof. Dr. A S Arunkumar:

• TOP 10 POSTERS at the 4th SG-ANZICS Intensive Care Forum. Singapore.
• Dr. T. Dhinakaran Gold Medal Award for Best Poster at the annual state conference of the API TN state chapter.
• KOPS best paper award at the annual conference of the Indian society of anesthesiologists. Jaipur.
• Best paper award at the annual physicians conference APICON. Kochi.
• The prestigious Hansraj Nayyar Best Paper Award at the International Critical Care Congress and 13TH Annual conference of the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine. Kochi.
• The prestigious Hansraj Nayyar Best Paper at the International Critical Care Congress and 11th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine. Nagpur.
• Best paper award at 2nd Asia Pacific Centre of Excellence on Critical Care Interventions. Hyderabad.

Brief Profile of Prof. Dr. A S Arunkumar:

With over 28 years of exclusive experience in the field of multidisciplinary critical care, Dr. Arun, is one of the senior most intensivists in India. Having established and led high volume critical care units in reputed academic centres of Chennai, DR Arun has managed over 45000 critically ill patients including over 17000 mechanically ventilated patients over the years. He brings with him a wealth of expertise in managing complex critically ill patients on multiple organ support, including those on ECMO and CRRT.

His areas of focus include invasive and non-invasive mechanical ventilation, septic shock, multidrug resistant infections, perioperative and trauma critical care and obstetric critical care. In addition to this extensive clinical work, Dr Arun has the distinction of initiating and establishing one of the first two higher speciality Critical Care Medicine training programs (DM Critical Care Medicine) in India in 2012 and has been instrumental in establishing two of the four such programs currently available in Tamil Nadu.