Dr. SUDEEP KUMAR KAPALAVAI

Languages Known

Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and English

Area(s) of expertise/Special interest

Hemodynamic optimization, Ultrasound in critical care, Cardiac critical care, ECMO

Professional Experience

8 years

Affiliations /Certifications / Memberships

Member of Indian Academy of Pediatrics, IAP- Intensive Care Chapter, Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine

Awards

Gold Medalist in MD

Publications

• Kapalavai SK, Ramachandran B, Krupanandan R, Sadasivam K. Usefulness of urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin as a predictor of acute kidney injury in critically ill children. Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine: Peer-reviewed, Official Publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine. 2022 May;26(5):634
• Amatya P, Kapalavai SK, Deep A, Sankaranarayanan S, Krupanandan R, Sadasivam K, Ramachandran B. Pediatric acute liver failure: An experience of a pediatric intensive care unit from resource-limited settings. Frontiers in Pediatrics. 2022 Sep 2:1528 
• Gelbart, Ben & Kapalavai, Sudeep & Marchesini, Vanessa & Veysey, Andrea & Serratore, Alyssa & Appleyard, Jessica & Bellomo, Rinaldo & Butt, Warwick & Duke, Trevor. (2024). Quantifying edema in skin tissue in children after cardiac surgery: the QuEST study. Intensive Care Medicine – Pediatric and Neonatal. 2. 10.1007/s44253-024-00024-7
• Gelbart, Ben & Marchesini, Vanessa & Kapalavai, Sudeep & O’Brien, Adam & Veysey, Andrea & Serratore, Alyssa & Appleyard, Jessica & Bellomo, Rinaldo & Butt, Warwick & Duke, Trevor. (2023). Lung ultrasound scores are not associated with subcutaneous edema or fluid balance in infants after cardiac surgery. Intensive Care Medicine – Pediatric and Neonatal. 1. 10.1007/s44253-023-00020-3
• Gelbart, Ben & Kapalavai, Sudeep & Marchesini, Vanessa & Presneill, Jeffrey & Veysey, Andrea & Serratore, Alyssa & Appleyard, Jessica & Bellomo, Rinaldo & Butt, Warwick & Duke, Trevor. (2023). A Clinical Score for Quantifying Edema in Mechanically Ventilated Children With Congenital Heart Disease in Intensive Care. Critical Care Explorations. 5. e0924. 10.1097/CCE.0000000000000924
• Gelbart, Ben & Marchesini, Vanessa & Kapalavai, Sudeep & Veysey, Andrea & Serratore, Alyssa & Appleyard, Jessica & Bellomo, Rinaldo & Butt, Warwick & Duke, Trevor. (2023). Agreement Between Measured Weight and Fluid Balance in Mechanically Ventilated Children in Intensive Care. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Publish Ahead of Print. 10.1097/PCC.0000000000003258
• Krupanandan, Ravi & Kapalavai, Sudeep & Ekka, Alok Shimee & Balusamy, Indhiradevi & Sadasivam, Kalaimaran & P, Senthur & Ramachandran, Bala. (2023). Active surveillance for carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) using stool cultures as a method to decrease CRE infections in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). Indian journal of medical microbiology. 44. 100370. 10.1016/j.ijmmb.2023.100370
• Arya S, Kumar S, Kaur C, Chellani H. Acute Kidney Injury in Neonatal Sepsis: Risk Factors, Clinical Profile, and Outcome. J Ped Inf Diseases 2018; 13: 32-36 
• Kumar S, Ramachandran B, Sadasivam K. Diphtheritic membrane: an alternative approach. Archives of disease in childhood. 2019 Jul 23: Archdischild-2019 
• Mukherjee S, Ravikumar K, Kapalavai SK, Ramachandran B. A Child with Unilateral Pulmonary Edema Due to Mitral Valve Rupture Following Blunt Trauma. Indian J Crit Care Med 2021; 25 (6):728-730