Dr. Anusha Rao Shavkar

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Overview:

Dr. Anusha Rao Shavkar is an experienced pulmonologist, critical care and sleep specialist dedicated to advanced lung care.

Her areas of expertise include advanced interventional pulmonology, management of airway diseases, sleep-related disorders, lung infections, pleural disorders, lung cancer screening, and diagnosis.

Currently, she serves as Consultant- Clinical and Interventional Pulmonologist and Adult and pediatric sleep specialist at KIMS Hospitals, Kompally, Secunderabad. 

Qualifications & Education:

• MBBS from Narayana Medical College, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh.
• M.D. from Santhiram Medical College, Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh.
• DNB Pulmonary Medicine.
• EDARM Adult Pulmonary Medicine- Switzerland.
• D.M. Pulmonary, Critical care and Sleep Medicine from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal, M.P.
• Fellowship in ECMO management

Work Experience:

1. Academic Junior resident (MD), Santhiram Medical College, Nandyal.
2. Senior Resident, Sri Venkateshwara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS), Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh.
3. Assistant Professor, Sri Venkateshwara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS), Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh.
4. Consultant pulmonologist in ESIC Medical College and Hospital, Sanath Nagar, Hyderabad, Telangana.
5. Consultant pulmonologist in Sowmya hospitals Hyderabad.
6. Academic Senior resident (DM), All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal.

Expertise and Special Interests:

• Interventional Pulmonology
• Airway Diseases: Asthma, COPD, Bronchiectasis.
• Sleep Clinic: Sleep-related disorders like Insomnia, Snoring, OSA, Narcolepsy
• Sleep Study.
• ILD- Lung fibrosis.
• Lung cancer.
• Lung infections: pneumonia, ARDS, Tuberculosis.
• Pulmonary Critical care- Ventilator & ECMO management.
• Chest Ultrasound.
• PFT – Spirometry.
• Advanced PFTs: Feno, Body Plethysmography, IOS, CPET.

Skills and Services Offered:

1. Flexible Bronchoscopic procedures :
   • Bronchoalveolar lavage
   • Endobronchial biopsy
   • Transbronchial lung biopsy
   • Whole lung lavage for pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
   • ICU Bronchoscopy.
2. Endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) - Convex and Radial EBUS - cryobiopsy of mediastinal lymph nodes
3. Medical thoracoscopy (Flexible + Rigid)
4. Rigid Bronchoscopy:
   • Management of central airway obstruction using Electrosurgery, Cryoablation, and APC
   • Repair of tracheal stenosis
   • Tracheobronchial stenting
   • Cryo-lung biopsy and cryoextraction of mucus plugs/blood clots
   • Foreign body removal
   • Bronchoscopic closure of BPF
5. Pulmonary Interventional procedures like USG guided pig tail insertion, tube thoracostomy for pneumothorax (ICD) & thoracentesis.
6. Ultrasound-guided pleural biopsies.
7. Ultrasound-guided lung mass biopsies