Dr. Sai Shankar is a highly accomplished Pediatrician and Paediatric Intensivist with over two decades of clinical experience, including advanced training in some of the world’s most renowned children’s hospitals. Specialising in critical care for children and newborns, he brings extensive expertise in managing complex pediatric emergencies, paediatric and neonatal intensive care, and post-operative care for high-risk pediatric and cardiac cases.
With international training exposure across the UK and Australia, Dr. Sai Shankar is known for his exceptional skills in advanced ventilation strategies, ECMO, VAD (ventricular assist device) management, and neonatal intensive care. During his decade in the UK and Australia, he conducted over 400 pediatric and neonatal retrievals via air, land, and water.
His patient-centric approach, combined with evidence-based practice, makes him one of the leading pediatric critical care specialists in Bangalore.
- Management of normal and difficult airway and use of video intubations
- Basic and advanced paediatric ventilation including HFO and iNO
- Cardiovascular stabilisation of a sick child, USG guided CVL access
- Pediatric and Adult ECMO
- Paediatric functional echocardiography in intensive care
- Stabilisation of polytrauma and head injury in children
- Paediatric peritoneal and haemodialysis
- Controlled sedation and use of anaesthetic drugs
- Post operative management of cardiac children
- Pediatric simulations and critical care training
- Neonatal Advanced life Support ( India, UK )
- Paediatric Advanced Life Support (India, UK )
- ECMO training ( India, UK, Australia )
- International Paediatric Simulation ( UK, India )
- Functional Echocardiography in emergency life support certification ,
- King’s college – London ( 2013-2017)
- Morphology and echocardiography of congenital heart disease , UK
- Airway management – beyond basics – College of Intensive Care
- Management accredited course– Frankston, Australia, (2016)
- Neonatal and Pediatric ECMO certificate training by ELSO foundation- 2025
- Built a remote monitoring solution for COVID-19 which was recognised by the The Economic Times as one of the “Best RPM Solutions for COVID 19 in India” in 2019
- Lead the Karnataka Hypertension Control program as Technical Advisor- AIIMS, Rishikesh and Institute of Public Research in 2024
- Cofounder of healthtech solution spanning remote patient monitoring and decentralised clinical trials
Sepsis and Septic shock, ECMO , Extracorporeal therapies, technology in intensive and emergency care, Medical simulations
- Dissertation: “A Clinical Study of Congenital Malformation in Stillbirths and Liveborns” (2004-2005)
- Poster Presentation: “Pleural Effusion in Mechanically Ventilated Children – Is Routine Drainage Justified?” WORLD FEDERATION OF PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE & CRITICAL CARE SOCIETIES, 2014
- Publication: “Role of Levosimendan in Weaning Children Requiring Veno-Arterial ECMO after Cardiac Surgery” – European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 2021
- Chapter Author: Acute Appendicitis in Evidence Based Practices in the Management of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 2022
- ndian Academy of Paediatrics
- IAP – Intensive Care Chapter, India
- Indian Society of Clinical Research
- ECMO Society of India
