Dr. Gopalakrishna Bhat, Consultant intervention cardiologist with more than 27 years of post-DM experience in invasive and non-invasive cardiology and emergency ICU care

Professional Biography

Worked as House Physician in the Department of General Medicine, Nair Hospital
Worked as House Physician in the Department of General medicine, Kasturba Hospital
Worked as Resident Registrar in the Department of General MEDICINE, Nair Hospital
Worked as Resident Cardiology & ICCU Registrar in the Department of Cardiology, Hospital,
Worked as Resident Cardiology & ICCU Registrar in the Department of Cardiology, hospital,
Worked as Asst. Medical Officer at Nair Hospital
Worked as Clin. Associate in Cardiology at P.D. Hinduja National Hospital & Me Research Center
Worked as Chief Interventional Cardiologist at Medical Trust Hospital, Ernakulam,
Worked as Chief Interventional Cardiologist at Padmavathy Heart Institute, Kollam
Worked at Valiyath Institute Of Medical Science as a Chief Interventional Cardiologist in Kollam
Al-ZAHRA Hospital Sharjah, UAE as Interventional Cardiologist

Specialty

INTENSIVE CARDIAC CARE UNIT
Managing patients with acute myocardial infarction unstable angina, various hypertension crisis, etc, and performing transvenous, transthoracic pacing, DC Cardioversion and Defibrillation, SWAN, GANZ catheterization, and central venous pressure monitoring, cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
NON INVASIVE CARDIOLOGY
Stress Test (Computerized & Ordinary) :
PTCA and CABG assessment.
Echocardiography (2D & M Mode, Doppler & Color Doppler) :
Phono cardiography, Apex cardiography & Vector cardiography :
Coronary Angiography 
More than 16000 cases including emergency angiography in acute MI & post-Thromb therapy patients.
Pediatric Catheterization
Adults with Rheumatic & Congenital Heart Disease :
Interventional Procedures
Independently performed more than 5200 Coronary, Peripheral Angioplasties and B Valvotomy.
Done more than 16000 interventions which included coronary angioplasty, pulmonary, mitral & tricuspid balloon valvotomy, coarctation, and renal and peripheral angioplasty.
CARDIAC SURGERY EXPERIENCE
Experienced in the perioperative management of cases which included coronary artery bypass
surgery, valve repair, valve replacement, commissurotomy, shunt procedures and coronary
procedures in congenital heart disease. I was an Active Member of “First Cardiac
Transplant in Kerala held in Medical Trust Hospital-Kochi”
I worked as Chief Interventional Cardiologist at Medical Trust Hospital, Ernakulam, which is one of the finest and most well-equipped hospitals, having ICCU, Color Doppler, Echocardiography
Computerized Treadmill Stress Test and Cardiac Catheterization and Angiography interventional facilities

Memberships/Rewards

Life member of the Cardiological Society of India

Fellow of the American and European Society of Cardiology