The pioneer in Viagra treatment in Neonatology

Dr.P.K.Rajiv is a pioneer in the field of Neonatal care in India with 27 years of path breaking acheivements in his trail blazing career. His expertise in ventilatory care both conventional and innovative has rated him as one of the most outstanding specialists of the country. He has to his credit of starting Neonatal ventilation FIRST TIME in Chennai in 1991. This was among the 5 main centres dealing with structured neonatal care in India at that time. He started ventilatory care for the FIRST TIME IN KERALA in 1993. His 24 bedded 3000 sq foot neonatal unitat PVS Memorial Hospital Kochi was reported to be the biggest and most technologically advanced unit in the country having a survival of 93% above 26 weeks gestation.

He went on to start HIGH FREQUENCY VENTILATION IN INDIA in 1997 and perfected the technique . He introduced HFo first time to Karnataka at Mallya Hospital Bangalore 2000, by saving 32 weeks gestation twins who failed conventional ventilation. He was the first to SAVE A 500gm BABY born less than 24 weeks gestation in 1997, with a good neurological outcome. He was invited to start the most technologically advanced unit in the country at Amrita Insitute of medical sciences Kochi in 2002 . This is a 1500 bed university hospital with all subspecialities having national and international rating. He introduced BUBBLE CPAP first time in INDIA in June 2002.

His original work in use of VIAGRA in PULMONARY HYPERTENSION of newborn successfully in May 2002 was rated internationally and widely acclaimed. He wasTHE FIRST IN THE WORLD to use it successfully and develop guidelines for its use. It remains a life saving drug in this potentially fatal condition in developing countries. He was promoted to Professor of Neonatology in 2003 and developed fellowship programmes in Neonatology and diplomate in national board DNB neonatology. His unique survival of 94.5%of ventilated neonates was a national landmark.

His academic contribution was his best selling book CPAP BEDSIDE APPLICATION 2008 was the first book in he world on this techniquewith a review of 134 articles. It gave clear and comprehensive guidelines to beginners and practioners. Dr.Richard Polin reviewed it as an excellent primer on CPAP. Dr.Vinod Bhutani stanford university USA wrote I loved that book. Dr.Georg Simbrunner reviewed it as an elaborate and well structured comprehensive book. His next book ESSENTIALS OF NEONATAL VENTILATION 2017 is a comprehensive 900 page book covering all aspects of bedside management in detail, aimed at being a bedside resource book giving management guidelines based on avoiding lung injury and rationalising gentle ventilation and optimising the use of CPAP. Dr.Dharmapuri Vidyasagar university of Chicago has accepted to be the co author

Dr.Rajiv is currently head of the newborn intensive care unit at NMC Speciality Hospital Dubai where he was invited by he management to start the most technologically advanced unit in the region. He brings his expertise of 27 years in ventilatory care and the handling over 18000 critical babies, to he region. hIs facination for state of the art made him buy the most advanced neonatal ventilator VN 500 drager in Dubai in 2010 for the first time. he conducted the first conference on NEWBORN SCREENING in UAE in Dubai on April 2010. He was one of the two neonatologists invited by the cleveland clinic USA to deliver a lecture at the arab health conference in January 2012. He proposes to give a low cost proposal to the Government to optimise the care of babies with respiratory distress based on the successfully implemented proposal given to the health minister of Kerala in January 2010. He envisages a Arab board fellowship in Neonatology by 2013.