Dr Muralidhar Joshi Share Profile

Qualifications :

• MBBS - Government Medical College, Bellary, Karnataka (1992)
• MD - (Anaesthesiology) - PGIMER, Chandigarh (1995)
• DNB - (Anaesthesiology) - National Academy of Medical Examinations, New Delhi (1996)
• FIAPM - Indian Academy of Pain Medicine (2018)
• Fellowship in Pain Management at Virinchi Hospitals, Hyderabad, Telangana (2016)
• Fellowship in Pain Management at ESI Hospitals, Kolkata (2016)
• Fellowship in Pain Management at Kamineni Wockhardt Hospitals, Hyderabad, Telangana (2009)
• Fellowship in Emergency Medicine, awarded by Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, Telangana (2001)

Area Of Expertise :

Interventional Pain Management

• Acute Pain Interventions
• Chronic Pain Interventions

Awards :

• Awarded ‘Legend in Pain Management' by IMA, Telangana State (2022) and Times Group at Hyderabad (2017)
• Awarded ‘Academic Excellence for the year 2010’ by the Indian Society of Anesthesiologists National Body at Lucknow (2010)
• Awarded the ‘Bhagwan Dhanantri Sadbhavana Puraskar’ by Bharatiya Sanskruthi Nirman Parishad, Hyderabad for the meritorious services rendered social, educational, literary, cultural, and humanitarian service to the public (2007)
• Secured First place in a free paper presentation at the Annual Conference of the Indian Society for Study of Pain (Percutaneous epidural adhesiolysis by Sledinger technique, held in Pune (2005)
• Secured First place in a poster presentation (Ausitory function following spinal analgesia – Comparison of two needles) at the International Conference of Anesthesiologists held in Oman (1996)
• Secured Medal in MD Examinations at PGIMER, Chandigarh, India (1995)
• Secured First place in a poster presentation (Epidural blood patch – CT Scan evaluation of direction and extent of spread) at the Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Anesthesiologists, Bangalore, December (1993)
• Received the position of Programme Head for the World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists (WFSA) and started Fellowship in Acute & Chronic Pain Management in India (2015)
• Introduced ‘First Android Application in the World’ on Interventional Pain Management in collaboration with Medicovibes (2012)
• Initiated an International Programme ‘Overseas Doctors Training Programme in Pain Management’ at Kamineni Hospitals for Oman Anesthesia Residents. (2010)
• Performed ‘First Epiduroscopy in South India’ for viewing the contents of epidural space and facilitating adhesiolysis of epidural adhesions (2005)

Language :

• English
• Hindi
• Telugu
• Kannada

Publications :

International:

• Beatrice Korwisi, Barbara Beatriz Garrido Suarez, Subrata Goswami, Nischala Reddy Gunapati, Ginea Hay, Manuel Angel Hernandez Arteaga, Charlotte Hill, David Jones, Muralidhar Joshi, Maria Kleinstauber, Ana Marta Lo'pez Manteco'n, Gargi Nandi, Chandra Shekhar Reddy Papagari, Mariadel Carmen Rab 1Mart' mez, Biplab Sarkar, Nicola Swain, Paul Templer, Maartje Tulp Naomi White, Rolf-Detlef Treede, Winfried Rief, Antonia Barke: Reliability and clinical utility of the chronic pain classification in the 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases from a global perspective: results from India, Cuba, and New Zealand (Research Paper). Pain 2022 March; Vol 163: No 3:e453-e462
• Mark A. Warner, Daniel Arnal, Daniel J. Cole, Rola Hammoud, Carolina Haylock- Loor, Pedro Ibarra, Muralidhar Joshi, Fauzia A. Khan, Konstantin M. Lebedinskii, Jannicke Mellin-Olsen, Katsuyuki Miyasaka, Wayne W. Morriss, Bisola Onajin-Obembe, Robinson Toukoune, and Patricia Yazbeck. Anesthesia Patient Safety: Next Steps to Improve Worldwide Perioperative Safety by 2030 (Special Article). Anesthesia & Analgesia 2022 March
• Vijayan R, Afshan G, Bashir K, Cardosa M, Chadha M, Chaudakshetrin P, Hla KM, Joshi M, et al. Tramadol: A Valuable Treatment for Pain in Southeast Asia (Original Research). Journal of Pain Research (Dove Press) 2018 Oct; Vol 2018:11:2567-2575.
• Gur Prasad Dureja, Paramanand N Jain, Muralidhar Joshi, Ashok Saxena, Gautam Das, Jaishid Ahdal, Prashant Narang. Addressing the barriers related to opioid therapy for the management of chronic pain in India. Pain Management 2017 Jul;7(4):311-330.
• Dureja GP, Jain PN, Shetty N, Mandal SP, Prabhoo R, Joshi M, Natarajan KB, Iyer R, Tanna DD, Ghosh P, Saxena A, Kadhe G, Phansalkar AA. Prevalence of Chronic Pain, Impact on daily life, and treatment practices in India. Pain Practice 2014, Feb; 14(2): E-51-62
• IndINep Study Group (Multicentric Study, Muralidhar Joshi (one of the investigators)}. The Burden of Neuropathic Pain in Indian Patients Attending Urban, Specialty Clinics: Results from a Cross-Sectional Study. Pain Practice. 2008; 8(5): 362-378
• S.K. Malhotra, M. Joshi, S. Grover, S.C. Sharma, A. Dutta. Auditory function following spinal analgesia. Comparison of two spinal needles. European Journal of Anaesthesiology, 2002; 19; 69-72.
• S. Gupta, P. Chari, Indu Bala, Muralidhar. J. Phakomorphic Glaucoma is an unusual cause of postoperative vomiting. Anaesthesia, 1994; 49: 959-960.

National:

• Umesh G, Bhaskar SB, Harsoor SS, Dongare PA, Garg R, Kannan S........Muralidhar Joshi... Venkatesh H Keshavan et al. Preoperative investigations: Practice Guidelines from the Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists. Indian J Anaesth 2022; 66:319-43
• Malhotra N, Bajwa SS, Joshi M, Mehdiratta L, Kurdi M. Second wave of COVID-19 pandemic and the surge of mucormycosis: Lessons learnt and future preparedness: Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists (ISA National) Advisory and Position Statement. Indian J Anaesth 2021; 65:427-33
• Malhotra N, Joshi M, Gehdoo RP, Usmani H, Sharma G. Pain medicine as a career. Indian J Anaesth 2021; 65:73-8
• Mehdiratta L, Bajwa SJ, Malhotra N, Joshi M. Exploring cocktails, remixes, and innovations in regional nerve blocks: The clinical research journey continues. Indian J Anaesth 2020; 64:1003-6
• Singh B, Garg R, Rao SS, Ahmed SM, Divatia JV, Ramakrishnan TV, Lalit Mehdiratta,
• Muralidhar Joshi, Naveen Malhotra, Sukhminder Jit Singh Bajwa. Reply to comments on prone CPR for COVID-19 patients. Indian J Anaesth 2020; 64:828-9
• Joshi M. Newer Avenues in IJA academics. Indian J Anaesth 2020; 64:159
• Dongare PA, Bhaskar SB, Harsoor SS, Garg R, Kannan S, Goneppanavar U, Zulfiqar Ali, Ramachandran Gopinath, Jayashree Sood, Kalavani Mani, Pradeep Bhatia, Priyanka Rohatagi, Rekha Das, Santu Ghosh, Subramanyam S Mahankali, Sukhminder Jit Singh Bajwa, Sunanda Gupta, Sunil T Pandya, Venkatesh II Keshavan, Muralidhar Joshi, Naveen Malhotra. Perioperative fasting and feeding in adults, obstetric, pediatric and bariatric population: Practice Guidelines from the Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists. Indian J Anaesth 2020; 64: 556-84
• Singh B, Garg R, Chakra Rao SS, Ahmed SM, Divatia JV, Ramakrishnan TV, Lalit Mehdiratta, Muralidhar Joshi, Naveen Malhotra, Sukhminder Jit Singh Bajwa. Indian Resuscitation Council (IRC) suggested guidelines for Comprehensive Cardiopulmonary Life Support (CCLS) for suspected or confirmed coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient. Indian J Anaesth 2020; 64: S91-6
• Malhotra N, Bajwa SJ, Joshi M, Mehdiratta L, Trikha A. Covid Operation Theatre - Advisory & Position Statement of Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists (ISA National). Indian J Anaesth 2020; 64:355-362
• Malhotra N, Joshi M, Datta R, Bajwa SJ, Mehdiratta L. Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists (ISA National) Advisory & Position Statement regarding Covid-19. Indian J Anaesth 2020; 64: 259-63
• Joshi M. VISION 2020. Indian J Anaesth 2020; 64:4-5
• Neha Kanojia, Muralidhar Joshi, Amarnath Reddy Basavanapalli. Revascularisation surgeries in pediatric patients with Moyamoya Disease - An anesthesia point of view (Implications). Indian Journal of Anesthesia & Analgesia. IJAA_11396_2020
• Law TJ, Lipnick M, Joshi M, Rath GP, Gelb AW. The path to safe and accessible anesthesia care. Indian J Anaesth 2019; 63:965-71
• Sahoo RK, Joshi M, Joshi SD, Rao U. Treatment of bilateral refractory saphenous nerve entrapment neuropathy with pulsed radiofrequency. Anaesth Pain & Intensive Care 2018;22(1):109-111
• Joshi M (Editorial). Adopting technology in pain education. Indian J Pain 2016; 30:145- 6
• Joshi M, Kanojia N, Rao UW, Basavaraju L. An unusual presentation of trigeminal neuralgia caused by fibrous dysplasia (managed with radiofrequency lesioning). Indian J Pain 2016; 30:67-9
• Joshi M. A prospective study to determine the circumstances, incidence, and outcome of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in a referral hospital in India, in relation to various factors. Indian J Anaesth 2015; 59:31-6
• Muralidhar Joshi, B. Amarnath Reddy, Bhargavi Bollampally, Sachin D Joshi. Successful management of a case with prior history of malignant hyperthermia for corrective scoliosis surgery (Brief Communications). Indian J. Anaesth 2014; 58(1): 78-80
• Muralidhar Joshi. Evaluation of Pain. Indian J. Anaesth. 2006; 50(5): 335-339.
• S. Gupta, Muralidhar. J, Sukhbir Grewal, Pramila Chari. Anesthetic management of a patient with unusual upper airway injury. J Anaesth Clin Pharmacol 1995; 11: 145-146