Dr. Khushal Dhirajlal Shah

Dr Khushal Dhirajlal Shah is a Paediatrician and Neonatologist in Bengaluru with 17 years of experience, currently practising as a Consultant at Manipal Hospital, Yeshwanthpur.

He specialises in neonatal intensive care, extreme prematurity management, neonatal resuscitation, advanced mechanical ventilation and preterm nutrition.

Areas of Expertise

• Neonatal Intensive Care and Extreme Prematurity: Dr Shah manages critically ill and extremely premature neonates in the intensive care unit, administering surfactant replacement therapy, advanced mechanical ventilation and specialized preterm nutrition.
• Neonatal Resuscitation and Critical Procedures: His procedural expertise includes delivery room neonatal resuscitation, umbilical arterial and venous catheterisation, endotracheal intubation and total parenteral nutrition management.
• Perinatal and Neonatal Pathologies: He diagnoses and provides evidence-based medical care for neonatal sepsis, perinatal asphyxia, respiratory distress syndrome, neonatal jaundice and systemic metabolic instabilities.
• Preterm Nutrition and Growth Surveillance: He designs tailored enteral and parenteral feeding strategies, monitoring physical development, weight gain trajectories and neurodevelopmental milestones in high-risk infants.
• Parental Counselling and Preventive Paediatrics: Dr Shah provides structured antenatal and postnatal counselling sessions covering newborn care, breastfeeding guidance, immunisation schedules and early developmental screening.

Educational Background

He completed a Fellowship in Neonatology at Vydehi Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, alongside the Postgraduate Program in Paediatrics and Neonatology from Boston University, United States.

Dr Shah secured first prize at a paediatric conference for his clinical research on Haemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis.

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