Dr. Shankey Garg

Dr. Shankey is a highly accomplished anaesthetist trained at various centres of repute in India. She has more than four years of experience after finishing her post-graduation (MD) in anaesthesia from the prestigious Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh. During her MD, she developed a particular interest in transplant anaesthesia. After completing her MD, she did a one-year liver transplant anaesthesia (PDCC) fellowship from the prestigious Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS), New Delhi. During her fellowship, she provided anaesthesia to more than 20 living donor liver transplant recipients and worked in the transplant ICU to take care of liver transplant recipients and donors. After her fellowship, she completed her senior residency in the Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care in PGIMER, Chandigarh, where she gained experience in peri-operative management of kidney transplant recipients, major gastrointestinal surgeries, urology procedures, orthopaedic surgeries, and obstetric patients. During her senior residency, she developed a particular interest in labour analgesia. She believes all pregnant women should have the right to pain-free childbirth. After completing her senior residency, she joined Max Super Speciality Hospital, Vaishali as a consultant in the Department of Critical Care, where she was also involved in the living donor liver transplant program. She has a keen interest in academics and has authored various publications in journals of national and international repute.

• Liver transplant anaesthesia
• Hepatopancreatic biliary surgeries
• Gastrointestinal surgeries
• Labour analgesia
• Point of care ultrasound (POCUS)

• Garg S, Sindwani G, Garg N, Arora MK, Pamecha V, Tempe D. Hypercoagulability on thromboelastography after living donor hepatectomy-The true side of the coin. Indian J Anaesth. 2021 Apr;65(4):295-301. doi: 10.4103/ija.IJA_1338_20.
• Garg S, Kumar S, Mahajan S. Is intramyometrial carboprost troublesome? J Obstet Anaesth Crit Care 2020;10:150-1.
• Mahajan S, Garg S, Kumar S, Chauhan R. Prodigious valve: Ultrasound will surely help!!! J Anaesthesiol Clin Pharmacol 2022.
• Mehtani R, Garg S, Kajal K, Soni S L, Premkumar M. Neurological monitoring and sedation protocols in the liver intensive care unit. Metabolic brain disease. 2022;10.1007/s11011-022-00986-7
• Kansal A, Kataria D, Garg S, Taneja S, Mahajan S. Comparison of analgesic effect of intravenous and intraperitoneal magnesium sulphate in laproscopic cholecystectomy: A prospective randomized controlled trial. Archives of anesthesiology and critical care (Winter 2022); 0(0):00-00
• Mahajan S, Dugg K, Kumar S, Garg S. Peri-operative anesthetic management of a patient with aplastic anemia for total hip replacement: case report.  Archives of anesthesiology and critical care
• Garg S, Parkash K, Arora MK. Anaphylactic shock during living donor hepatectomy: An anesthesiologist’s nightmare and the recipient’s too? Indian J Aanesth 2022;xx:xx-xx.