Experience and Expertise:
Specialized training in OBG and fetal medicine. Dr. Afshana Sidhik has 9 yrs expertise in OBG and laparoscopic surgery including 4 ½ years in fetal medicine.
Qualifications.
- MBBS - COLLEGE: Pushpagiri Medical College, Tiruvalla, MG University
- MS OBG 2012-15 - COLLEGE: Pushpagiri Medical College, Tiruvalla, KUHS, Thrissur.
- Fellowship in obstetric ultrasound at Mediscans Chennai 2019 April.
Areas
- Quality assurance awareness.
- High ethical standards.
- Fetal medicine consultant-advanced fetal scans - NT ,TIFFA scan,growth scan ,fetal ECHO.
- FETAL INTERVENTION- amniocentesis , chorionic villus sampling ,fetal blood sampling , amnio reduction.
- Experience in laparoscopic surgery since 8 yrs- laparoscopic ovarian cystectomy, LAVH,
- laparoscopic khanna surgery ,laparoscopic salpingectomy,sterilisation,myomectomy, TLH.
- Management of labour and delivery - instrument delivery- skilled in forceps delivery , surgical
- skills in OBG-Mangement of PPH, shirodkar and high intraperitoneal cerclage, Lscs,2 nd stage section.
- Management of high risk obstetrics
- Ultrasound in obstetrics- trained for first trimester screening, TIFFA scan , monitoring FGR and
- higher order pregnancy . Fellowship done at Mediscans Chennai.
- INTRAPARTUM ultrasound monitoring in labor.
- Emergency obstetric care trainer (EmOCALS).
- Obstetric rapid response team trainer (ORRT).
- Best paper award by AKCOG 2014,2015 and 2019
- Academic oriented with interest in CME and paper publications.
ACHIEVEMENTS
- Editor ofThe book - KFOG GUIDELINES FOR MANAGEMENT OF LABOUR AND DELIVERY.
- Editor of the upcoming edition of Why mothers die?
- R.K.K. THAMPAN memorial Award for best paper 2019 for New techniques to improve the outcome of Placenta accreta spectrum .
- FIGO Congress 2018 at BRAZIL, RIO - conducted workshop on emergency obstetric procedures -emergency cerclage.
- R.K.K. THAMPAN memorial Award for best paper 2015. “ D&C VERSUS ENDOMETRIAL ASPIRATION – A COMPARISON”
- KALYANIKUTTIAMMA memorial Award For best paper 2014. “Severe acute maternal morbidity – an audit”
- AKCOG Workshop Topics - 2016 - management of acute hemorrhage - scar ectopic pregnancy.
- AKCOG 2017- management of PPH workshop.
- AKCOG 2018- talk on management of Rh negative pregnancy.
- AKCOG 2019-Placenta accreta spectrum workshop.
- AKCOG 2020 - Talk on headache in pregnancy.
- Conducted CME programs with Dr VP Paily at rajagiri hospital on labor and delivery management, emergency obstetric procedures , INTRAPARTUM fetal monitoring-CTG workshop, vaginal surgery live workshop, instrument delivery live workshop.
