Bio
Since completing my Paediatric residency and attaining a clinical fellowship in Paediatric Intensive Care at Cambridge, I have been an active Consultant in PICU at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), Barbados from 2012. Prior to the aforementioned assignment, I was appointed as Associate Lecturer in Child Health at the University of the West Indies (UWI) in 2007. I have been an examiner for both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes across campuses at the UWI. I was subsequently promoted to Senior Associate Lecturer at UWI in 2019 and in that same year, I spearheaded formal Paediatric Sedation protocols as lead consultant.
My clinical work now includes daily PICU rounds as Barbados only PICU trained consultant, assisting in the Paediatric Cardiovascular Clinic as well as on-call coverage includes all facets of paediatrics beyond the PICU. I am deeply invested in quality control in the PICU. As a result, I have developed performance indicators aimed at improving the quality of care. I have subsequently developed a special interest in Traumatic Brain injury with my present focus being on brain death criteria and formal establishment of guidelines locally. As the sole PICU consultant locally and one of the few PICU consultants in the Caribbean, I am available 24/7 and also oversee overseas referrals from neighbouring islands with facilitation of patient transfers. Furthermore, I organise the QEH’s Annual PICU conference. I am also a member in the Drugs and Therapeutic Committee and Specially Authorised Drugs committee.
Internationally, I am a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine who contributed to the development of an online module in paediatric mechanical ventilation. (Appointed as Vice Chair of Pediatric online Module ,SCCM)Additionally, I became a member of the Allergy and Asthma Network in India. In recognition of my work with the hospital and the wider community, I was awarded the Fellow of American College of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM) in 2021 and Fellow of Royal college of Pediatrics and Child Health(FRCPCH).
Qualifications
FCCM-Fellowship by American College of Critical Care Medicine.2021
Clinical Fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care at Cambridge University Hospital, NHS, UK in 2010.
Post graduate Program in Pediatric Nutrition in association with Boston University of School of Medicine, 2020
Post graduate certificate course in University Teaching and learning at University of West Indies, 2019.
Diploma in Allergy & Asthma CMC, Vellore ,India & Colorado (International Asthma Services).2019
DM(Pediatrics)-India 2002
Research Areas
My research interest in Pediatric Critical care, emerging infectious diseases and Allergy/Asthma.
Current area of research: Brain Death criteria/policy.
Dengue - Predicting severe dengue: a prospective study of the clinical presentations & laboratory findings - Dengue epidemiology: sero-surveillance & epidemiological study.
Hanta virus - Milder Hanta infection in English Caribbean: first ever reported series from the Caribbean - Prospective study of Hanta infection in Caribbean
Medical education.
Awarded FCCM by American College of Critical Care society,2021.
Medical education, No funding
Teaching Areas
Second year MBBS-CHD
Third year MBBS-Co ordinator
Final year MBBS-Examination of CVS
Publications
- Alqahtani AH, Jagpal P, Kudagammana T, Vedanthan PK, Krishnamurthy K, Hariharan S, El Shabrawy Mohamed Ali RM, Maharaj SB, Marriott JF, Krishna MT. Drug allergy management in Egypt, Sri Lanka and the Caribbean: A qualitative study. Clin Exp Allergy. 2023 Dec 11. doi: 10.1111/cea.14437. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38082508. T Austin, K Krishnamurthy, M Scantlebury, D Corbin Wolf -Hirschhorn syndrome :Rare Genetic Defect.EC Pediatrics 12 (1), 28-32.
- Arvind Santosh,K Krishnamurthy,N Ashok.Proposal of survey instrument for child oral and dental health policy in India August 2023 karnataka Pediatric Journal 38:47-51.DOI:10.25259/KPJ_34_2023
- K Krishnamurthy, A Kumar.Blood counts in the children hospitalized with febrile illness in the settings of dengue endemicity-its utility in the early recognition of the disease,Barbados Karnataka Paediatric Journal 38 (1),
- MAA Majumder, K Singh, WMS Johnson, A Rajasundaram, S Gupta, K Krishnamurthy. Evaluation of short-term side effects following the first dose of COVID-19 Vaccines among physicians and dentists:a cross-sectional study from India Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 161-174
- Majumder MAA, Singh K, Johnson WMS, Rajasundaram A, Gupta S, Gaur U, Kumar S, Chatterjee M, Fazle Rabbi AM, Sangishetti VP, Rahman S, Campbell MH, Harewood H, Bharatha A, Krishnamurthy K, Kabir R, Parsa AD, Mohammmad S, Haque M, Razzaque MS. Evaluation of Short-Term Side Effects Following the First Dose of COVID-19 Vaccines Among Physicians and Dentists: A Cross-Sectional Study from India. J Multidiscip Healthc. 2023;16:161-174, https://doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S39036
Keywords
Paediatrics, Neonatology, Quality control, Critical Care, Infectious disease, Allergy/Asthma, Medical education