0000-0001-7968-596X About
Dr. Shilpa Abraham is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Head of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Believers Church Medical College Hospital, Kerala, India. She completed her MBBS and MD in Pediatrics from Government Medical College Thiruvananthapuram, followed by DM training in Pediatric Critical Care from the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry.
Her clinical expertise includes pediatric intensive care, sepsis and septic shock, mechanical ventilation, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), acute kidney injury, continuous renal replacement therapy, and point-of-care ultrasonography. She has a special interest in critical care nephrology, respiratory support strategies, and pediatric onco-critical care.
Dr. Abraham is actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, simulation-based training, and the development of clinical protocols aimed at improving outcomes in critically ill children. Her research focuses on pediatric critical care, respiratory infections, diaphragm ultrasound, acute kidney injury, thrombosis, and infectious diseases. She has published in peer-reviewed national and international journals and serves as a reviewer for several pediatric and critical care journals.
Through her clinical, academic, and research activities, she remains committed to advancing evidence-based pediatric critical care and improving the quality of care for critically ill children.
Employment
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Believers Church Medical College Hospital Associate Professor and Pediatric Intensivist2021 - Present
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Publications (14)
- Clinical profile and risk factors of severe adenoviral infections among hospitalised children in South India: a cross-sectional study Save
- Protocolized vs. Conventional Sedation Among Mechanically Ventilated Children in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit – A Pre-Post Study Save
- Late-onset Ornithine Transcarbamylase Deficiency in an Adolescent Male: A Fatal Case of Hyperammonemic Encephalopathy-A Case Report Save
- Protocolized vs. conventional sedation among mechanically ventilated children in a pediatric intensive care unit--a pre-post study Save
- ANISOCORIA-IS IT ALWAYS SINISTER? Save
- Near-Fatal Aortoesophageal Fistula Following Button Battery Ingestion-A Case Report Save
- Assessment of the endotracheal tube tip position by bedside ultrasound in a pediatric intensive care unit: A cross-sectional study Save
- Low-dose (0.05 Unit/kg/hour) vs standard-dose (0.1 Unit/kg/hour) insulin in the management of pediatric diabetic ketoacidosis: a randomized double-blind controlled trial Save
- PcvCO2- PaCO2/CaO2- CcvO2 Ratio: The Holy Grail in Resuscitation! Save
- Trial of furosemide to prevent acute kidney injury in critically ill children: a double-blind, randomized, controlled trial Save