Dr. Shashidhar Hegde

Dr Shashidhar Hegde is a Paediatrician in Shimoga with 13 years of experience. He practices at Sahyadri Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Harakere and Chandragiri Multispeciality Hospital, Jayanagar.

He specialises in neonatal intensive care, paediatric critical care, childhood asthma, and growth assessment. His clinical focus includes managing high-risk newborns, treating acute childhood infections, and point-of-care ultrasound diagnostics.

Area of Expertise

Neonatal Intensive Care and Newborn Care

Dr Shashidhar Hegde cares for premature babies, low birth weight infants, newborn jaundice, newborn respiratory distress, and birth asphyxia. Interventions include neonatal mechanical ventilation, incubator care, surfactant therapy, phototherapy, and continuous positive airway pressure support.

Paediatric Critical Care and Emergency Medicine

Dr Shashidhar treats severe viral fevers, severe dehydration, paediatric septic shock, acute respiratory failure, and status epilepticus seizures in children. He provides emergency paediatric resuscitation, intensive care monitoring, central venous line placement, emergency intubation, and point-of-care ultrasound evaluations.

Childhood Asthma and Allergy Management

Dr Hegde addresses recurrent wheezing, allergic rhinitis, childhood asthma, chronic cough, and food allergies. Treatment includes nebulisation therapy, inhaler technique training, pulmonary function assessment, allergy trigger avoidance planning, and preventive medication titration.

General Paediatrics and Developmental Health

Dr Hegde Shashidhar evaluates failure to thrive, childhood malnutrition, developmental delays, common infectious fevers, and vitamin deficiencies. He delivers comprehensive developmental milestone tracking, routine immunisation planning, nutritional counselling, dietary supplementation, and growth screening assessments.

Academic Background

Dr Shashidhar completed a Fellowship in Neonatology and Neonatal Ventilation. He also completed a Diploma in Medical Sonology.

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