Anesthesiology

From July 1986 till date: Hinduja Hospital & Medical Research Centre as Head of Department, Anaesthesia & Operating Rooms

• Practising Anaesthesia in all branches primarily for complicated Orthopaedic, Neurosurgical & Cardio Thoracic Work.
• Actively training Nurses/Technicians & Residents.
• Involved in management of the OT & up-gradation of Anaesthesia Dept. & Operating Room.
• Involved in Clinical & Laboratory Research Work.

Seth G. S. Medical College & K.E.M. Hospital, Bombay - Major Teaching Hospital & Medical School

Memberships

• Life Member of the Indian Society of Anaesthetists (ISA), India.
• Life Member of the Dr. G. S. Ambardekar Society of Anaesthetists, Mumbai, India.
• Life Member of the Research society of Anaesthesiology and Clinical Pharmacology (RSACP).
• Founder member and life member of Indian society of cardiovascular thoracic anaesthesiologists. (IACTA)
• Associate member of Indian association of Cardiovascular and thoracic surgeons
• Member of Society for Cardiac Anaesthesia, U.S.A.
• Past President of RSACP, IACTA and ISA Mumbai branch
• Delivered lectures on various topics and an invited senior faculty at regional, national and international conferences.
• Coordinator for India at two of the world anaesthesia congress at Montreal and Paris in 2000 and 2004.
• On the review committee of national journals

About the Doctor

Dr. Manju Butani, M.D, graduated from the anaesthesiology training program of Seth G. S. Medical College and KEM group of hospitals, Mumbai, in 1981.

Dr. Butani is currently working as the Head of Department of Anaesthesiology and Operating rooms at the prestigious multi-speciality tertiary care, Hinduja Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai.

She is the past-president of Research Society of Anaesthesiology and clinical pharmacology (RSACP), Indian Society of Cardiovascular Thoracic Anaesthesiology (IACTA), the Mumbai chapter of Indian Society of Anaesthesia (ISA).

She was also representing the Indian group at some of the World congress in Anaesthesiology. She has actively and successfully conducted international conferences and workshops, to promote education in the field of Anaesthesiology in India.

Her special interests have ranged from Cardiac anaesthesia, Orthopaedics and Pain Management. Hinduja Hospital was amongst the earliest to have an Acute and Chronic Pain service.

She has been actively involved in the design and development of Operation Theatre and intensive care units. She has presented papers and participated as faculty at various national and international conferences.

From Seth G.S.M.C & K.E.M. Group of Hospitals

• Anaesthetic Management and Metabolic Studies during Circulatory Arrest during Profound Hypothermia.
• Acid-Base Studies during Extra-Corporeal Circulation.
• Use of Induced Hypotension during Cardio Vascular Surgery.
• Estimation of Cardiac Output Before and After Closed Mitral Valvotomy.
• Anaesthetic Management of Emergency Systematico Pulmonary Shunts in Severe Cyanotic Babies.
• Study of Blood Volume Changes in TUR of Prostate.
• Lung Abscess in Malnourished Children.
• Comparison of Atropine and Glycopyrrolate for Reversal in Closed Mitral Commissurotomy.

Studies Conducted At Hinduja Hospital

Acute Pain Management

• Intrathecal Buprenorphine Hydrochloride for Post-Operative Pain Relief for Transurethral Resection of Prostate - Madras, ISA, 1990.
• Acute Postoperative Pain Management - Gujarat State Conference, 1995.
• Patient Controlled Analgesia Using Ambulatory PCA Apparatus In Postoperative Orthopaedic Patients - Varanasi, ISA, Dec 1996
• I.V. Tramadol HCL Analgesia Using Patient Controlled Analgesia Devise For Post Coronary Bypass Graft Surgery. (CABG Patients) - Ooty, CVTS Annual 43 Rd IAC, Feb 1997.
• Epidural PCA A Comparison of Buprenorphine and Pethidine with Bupivacaine for Post-Operative Pain Relief.

- SA, Hyderabad, 1997.
• Comparison of IV vs. Epidural PCA for Spine Surgery. - ISA, Hyderabad, Dec 1997.
• Data Analysis of an Acute Pain Service: Our Experience of 500 Cases. - ISA, Delhi 1997.
• High Thoracic Epidural Anaesthesia and Analgesia for Fast Tracking In CABG Patients: Our Initial Experience.
  - 2nd IACTA, Bombay, Nov. 1998.
Organised, conducted and presented studies for conference on 'Acute Pain Service in a Private Hospital'.

Other Titles/ Studies

• Total circulating arrest for Clipping Giant Aneurysms in neurosurgery - ISA, Madras, 1990.
• Anaesthetic Management of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy - ISA, Madras, 1990.
• Effectiveness of autologous blood transfusion in coronary artery bypass graft surgery - 3rd world congress on open-heart surgery at Hyderabad, India - Feb 1993.
• A clinical appraisal of Brains laryngeal mask airway as an aid to airway management - XLI ISA Conference at Bangalore, India - Dec. 1993.
• Analysis of Blood product utilisation - P.D. Hinduja National Hospital in XLI Annual ISA Conference at Bangalore, India - Dec. 1993.
• Evaluation of Ondansetron in the prevention of post operative nausea and vomiting - Annual ISA Conference at Jaipur, India - Dec. 1994.
• Sodium Nitroprusside vs. Sodium Nitroprusside - Esmolol Combination for hypotensive anaesthesia in ENT surgery - XLIII Annual Conference of ISA at Varanasi Dec 26 - 30, 1995.
• Anaesthetic management of patient undergoing whole lung lavage for pulmonary alveolar Proteinosis. - 43rd Annual Conference of IACTS at Ooty, Feb 20-23, 1997.
• Use of Esmolol in Anaesthesiology - Indo- Portuguese meeting of Anaesthesiology and intensive care, Goa, December 1995.
• Oral Midazolam as a premedicant in children - ISA Delhi 1996.
• Incidence of hypotension following spinal anaesthesia in elderly coming for TURP surgery caparison between Ringer lactate, Gelatin (3.5%) and HES 6% (200/0.5) solutions- ISA Delhi 1996.
• Evaluation of intubating conditions comparison between succinylcholine, Vecuronium and Rocuronium - ISA Delhi 1996.
• Our initial experience with sevoflurane as an induction agent - Anaesthesia research society meeting, Pune, 1996.
• Indian patients’ knowledge and desire for information about anaesthesia - ISA, Hyderabad, 1996.
• Anaesthetic challenges in abdominal aneurysm - Guest lecture in IACTA 1997, Madras.

Publications

• “A clinical appraisal of Brains Laryngeal mask airway as an aid to airway management” - Indian Journal of Anaesthesia vol. 42 No. 4 Aug. 1994 262-266.
• “Anaesthetic management of a case of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea” - Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology vol. 13 No. 2 April 1997 159 -162.
• 'I.V. Tramadol hydrochloride analgesia using patient controlled analgesia device for post coronary bypass graft surgery (CABG)" - Journal of Anaesthesiology and Clinical Pharmacology, vol14, No-2, April 1998, page135-141.
• "Anaesthetic management of patient undergoing whole lung lavage for pulmonary alveolar proteinosis" - Annals of cardiac anaesthesia, vol-1, No-1, Jan 1998, page53.
• Chapter on Anaesthesia for laparoscopic cholecystectomy, Dr. Manju Butani Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy (Hardcover) by Tehemton E. Udwadia, Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA(1993/01/07)
• Anaesthetic management of a patient undergoing whole lung lavage for pulmonary alveolar proteinosis - Gandhe U, Gandhe R, Nandkumar S, Butani M. Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia. 1998 Jan; 1(1): 53-5
• Case Report: Use of the intubating laryngeal mask airway in a case of ankylosing spondylitis for coronary artery bypass grafting - D'Mello, J.; Pagedar, R.; Butani, M.; Kurkal, P.; Pandey, K. European Journal of Anaesthesiology. 19(4):298-302, April 2002.
• Case Report: Conditions for the insertion of the laryngeal mask airway: comparisons between sevoflurane and propofol using fentanyl as a co-induction agent. A pilot study.Ganatra, S. B.; D'Mello, J.; Butani, M.; Jhamnani, P. European Journal of Anaesthesiology. 19(5):371-375, May 2002
• Capnography: D'Mello, Dr. Manju Butani, Indian J. Anaesth. 2002; 46 (4): 269-278.
• Awake Craniotomy-our experience"-Dr. J Monteiro, Dr. M. Butani, Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology vol19 (4) October 2003:401-406
• 11. Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis with Respiratory Failure-Anaesthetic Management of Whole Lung Lavage. Sunita Nandkumar, Madhavi Desai, Manju Butani, Z Udwadia, Indian Journal of Anaesthesia: 2009, 53 (3) ,362-366
• 12. Comparison of fentanyl and butorphanol for postoperative pain relief with intravenous patient controlled analgesia. Bhoomika Thakore, Jacqueline D’Mello, Shalini Saksena, Manju Butani, Acute Pain Vol11, Issue 3, Pages 93-99 (December 2009)
• 13. Case Report: General anaesthesia for insertion of an automated implantable cardioverter defibrillator in a child with Brugada and autism. Indian Journal of Anaesthesia 2010, 54(6), 562-564. Shwetal Goraksha, Sneha Bidaye, Supriya Gajendragadkar, Jitendra Bapat, Manju Butani.

Special Events Organised To Encourage Academics In Anaesthesiology

• Organised International Congress, "International Update in Anaesthesiology Pain Management and Critical Care." 15th - 17th December 1995,at Bombay.
• Founder member of the Society of Indian Association of cardiovascular Thoracic Anaesthesiologists (IACTA) in 1997 and organised its second annual conference at Bombay in 1998.
• Conducted specialised workshop on Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation at Hinduja Hospital in 1997
• Conducted specialised workshop on Difficult Airway Management at Hinduja Hospital in 1999.
• Organised the National conference of Research Society of Anaesthesiology and Clinical Pharmacology- 2004
• Organised conferences for Indian Society of anaesthesiology on regional basis , annual and routine meetings with national and international speakers