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Dr. Deepika Gandhi

Specialist Paediatrics & Paediatric Intensive Care (PICU)

Speciality: P.I.C.U, Paediatrics

Nationality: Indian

Experience: 22 Years

Languages: English, Hindi, Tamil, Punjabi

NMC Royal Hospital Sharjah

Dr. Deepika Gandhi is a Senior Paediatric Intensivist with more than 20 years of experience, widely recognised as a best paediatric intensivist in Sharjah for families seeking specialised critical care. She is also trusted by parents looking for a paediatric intensivist, a child intensive care specialist, and an experienced paediatric ICU doctor Sharjah. With extensive international training and leadership roles in intensive care, she brings exceptional expertise as a critical care paediatrician Sharjah, offering advanced care in paediatric intensive care Sharjah. Prior to coming to UAE, she has worked as a Senior Consultant and Chief of Paediatric Critical Care Department in many well known tertiary level hospitals in Chennai, India such as SIMS Hospital, Apollo Children's Hospital and Mehta Children's Hospital. She is an experienced teacher and examiner.

After finishing her MBBS and Post-graduation in Paediatrics, she specialised in Paediatric Intensive Care. She has the distinction of being a graduate of the First batch of Paediatric Critical Care Fellowship Program in India in the year 2003. Subsequently, she has completed a Clinical Fellowship in Paediatric Critical Care at British Columbia Children's Hospital in Vancouver, Canada.

  • Management of critically ill children
  • Paediatric trauma
  • Neurocritical care
  • Post-operative Cardiac care
  • Postoperative care after other complex surgeries
  • Procedural sedation

  • Indian Academy of Paediatrics
  • Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine
  • Paediatrics Advanced Life Support (Indian Academy of Paediatrics) Instructor
  • Certified Teacher for Paediatric Critical Care Council, India

1. Arwa El-Dhuwaib, Deepika Gandhi. Methemoglobinemia with an Oxygen Saturation Gap secondary to Favism in a newly diagnosed Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency. J Appl Hematol 2025 (Accepted for publication; in print).

2. Contributing Author in Roger’s Textbook of Pediatric Intensive Care 6th Edition (Wolters Kluwer Pvt Ltd.); ISBN-13:978-1-975174-21-7; 2024.

3. Author of the book “Paediatric Critical Care Manual- Second Edition” (Wolters Kluwer, India); ISBN-13: 978-9395736503. Shrishu R Kamath and Deepika Gandhi; 1052 pages; November 2023.

4. Editor of the “1st South Asian Edition (SAE) of The Roger’s Handbook of Pediatric Intensive Care” (Wolters Kluwer India Pvt Ltd.); ISBN: 978–93-90612-42-0. SAE Editors: Deepika Gandhi and Shrishu R Kamath.

5. Gandhi Deepika. Recent advances in Septic Shock. Indian Journal of Practical Pediatrics, Vol.21 No.4, Oct-Dec 2019.

6. Author of the book “Paediatric Critical Care Manual” (Wolters Kluwer, India); ISBN: 978-93-87963-25-2. Shrishu R Kamath and Deepika Gandhi; 992 pages; June 2018.

7. Suchitra Ranjit, Gnanam Aram, Niranjan Kissoon, Deepika Gandhi, et al. Multimodal Monitoring for Hemodynamic Categorization and Management of Pediatric Septic Shock: A Pilot Observational Study. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 15 (1); Jan 2014 

8. Co-investigator for the multi-centric international RCT – “CLARINET”- (Clopidogrel to Lower Arterial thrombosis Risk In Neonates and infants/toddlers Trial) study, at Mehta Children’s Hospital.

9. Seear M, Gandhi D, Carr R, Dayal A, Raghavan D, Sharma N. (2011). The need for better data about counterfeit drugs in developing countries: a proposed standard research methodology tested in Chennai, India. Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Aug 2011, 36(4): 488-95.

10. Suchitra Ranjit, Niranjan Kissoon, Deepika Gandhi, et al. Early differentiation between Dengue and Septic shock by comparison of admission hemodynamic, clinical and laboratory variables – A Pilot Study. Pediatric Emergency Care, Volume 23, Number 6, June 2007.

 

11. “Shaken baby syndrome”, Indian Pediatrics, March 2004, Vol 41, No 3, 280-282.

 

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