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Overview

The Neonatology Department of Amala Institute of Medical Sciences is a specialised department which focuses on the health and medical conditions of all neonates (inborn and out born). It has a dedicated team of doctors and nurses, who specialises in providing Antenatal counselling, Delivery room care, Neonatal intensive care services, Routine postnatal care and Follow up services with the aim to provide good quality affordable neonatal care to the public at large.

Facilities

The Neonatology Department at Amala aims to become one of the best comprehensive newborn service provider in Thrissur and Kerala.

  • Antenatal counselling of high risk pregnancies
  • Delivery Room Care and resuscitation
  • Postnatal neonatal care
  • Breastfeeding support and lactation counselling
  • Care of sick neonates (Neonatal intensive Care Unit)
  • Neonatal ventilation (Invasive and non-invasive)
  • Therapeutic hypothermia
  • Neonatal nutrition
  • Developmentally supportive care and early intervention services
  • Comprehensive newborn screening services
  • Extremely low birth weight care
  • Extremely premature newborn care
  • Care of newborns with surgical conditions and congenital malformations
  • Family-cantered and Family participatory Neonatal care
  • Kangaroo Mother Care services
  • Phototherapy
  • Retinopathy of Prematurity screening
  • Community outreach neonatal services
  • Well baby clinics
  • Neonatal vaccinations
  • High Risk follow up services
  • In house Child Development Centre services
  • Baby friendly hospital services

Scope of Service

The Neonatology Department at Amala aims to become one of the best comprehensive newborn service provider in Thrissur and Kerala. The scope of services are:

  • Antenatal counselling of high risk pregnancies
  • Delivery Room Care and resuscitation
  • Postnatal neonatal care
  • Breastfeeding support and lactation counselling
  • Care of sick neonates (Neonatal intensive Care Unit)
  • Neonatal ventilation (Invasive and non-invasive)
  • Therapeutic hypothermia
  • Neonatal nutrition
  • Developmentally supportive care and early intervention services
  • Comprehensive newborn screening services
  • Extremely low birth weight care
  • Extremely premature newborn care
  • Care of newborns with surgical conditions and congenital malformations
  • Family-cantered and Family participatory Neonatal care
  • Kangaroo Mother Care services
  • Phototherapy
  • Retinopathy of Prematurity screening
  • Community outreach neonatal services
  • Well baby clinics
  • Neonatal vaccinations
  • High Risk follow up services
  • In house Child Development Centre services
  • Baby friendly hospital services

 

 


Faculties

Dr S Rohit
Reg.No: 39095
Associate Professor

Neonatology

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Publications

  • Sasidharan R, Gupta N, Toteja N, Yadav B. Diagnosing nail-patella syndrome: can it be so simple? BMJ Case Reports CP. 2021 Mar 1;14(3):e241833.
  • Sasidharan R, Yadav B, Gupta N. Umbilical cord blood sampling versus admission blood sampling on requirement of blood transfusion in extremely preterm infants. The Journal of Pediatrics. 2019 Dec;215:283–4.
  • Sasidharan R, Yadav B, Gupta N, Murki S. Reducing catheter-related bloodstream infections in neonates. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. 2019 Aug;3(8):e11.
  • Sasidharan R, Gupta N, Chawla D. Dopamine versus epinephrine for fluid-refractory septic shock in neonates. Eur J Pediatr. 2019 Jan;178(1):113–4.
  • Jayashree M, Sasidharan R, Singhi S, Nallasamy K, Baalaaji M. Root cause analysis of diabetic ketoacidosis admissions at a tertiary referral pediatric emergency department in North India. Indian J Endocr Metab. 2017;21(5):710.
  • Yadav B, Sasidharan R, Gupta N. Oral vitamin A for prevention of bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Eur J Pediatr. 2019 Oct;178(10):1601–1601.
  • Toteja N, Khera D, Panda S, Sasidharan R, Singh K. Discovery of Porphyria in a Postoperative Surgical Patient. Indian J Pediatr. 2021 Apr;88(4):412–412.
  • Toteja N, Khera D, Sasidharan R, Choudhary B, Singh K. Enteric Fever Precipitating Myxedema Crisis. Indian J Pediatr. 2020 Oct;87(10):873–4.
  • Gupta N, Toteja N, Sasidharan R, Gupta T, Singh K. Behind the façade of sapophagia: Role of psychosocial factors in early childhood. Asian Journal of Psychiatry. 2020 Mar;49:101956
  • Gupta N, Toteja N, Sasidharan R, Singh K. Childhood Scurvy: A Nearly Extinct Disease Posing a New Diagnostic Challenge, a Case Report. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics. 2020 Apr 1;66(2):231–3.
  • Toteja N, Sasidharan R, Kumar S, Zaman K, Singh VK, Jaiswal V, Srivastava K, Tiwari H, Mittal M. Role of Serum Ferritin and PRISM-III in Predicting Mortality in Children with Acute Encephalitis Syndrome in Northern India. Journal of Pediatric Intensive Care. 2022 Jul 3.
  • Yadav B; Gupta N; Sasidharan R; Thanigainathan S; Purohit P; Singh K; Sharma P; Singh A, 3. European journal of pediatrics [Eur J Pediatr], ISSN: 1432-1076, 2022 Sep; Vol. 181 (9), pp. 3473-3482;
  • Toteja N, Khera D, Sasidharan R. Craniofrontonasal dysplasia. Sudanese Journal of Paediatrics. 2022;22(1):119.
  • Gupta N, Yadav B, Sasidharan R, Tak V, Sharma A, Singh A, et al. P0656/# 2076: Emergence of extensively drug-resistant (xdr) gram-negative sepsis among neonates: a retrospective cohort study. Pediatr crit care med. 2021;22(supplement 1 3s):317.
  • Gupta N, Yadav B, Sasidharan R, Tak V, Sharma A, Singh A, et al. P0655/# 2074: Emergence of burkholderia cepacia complex sepsis among neonates: a retrospective cohort study. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2021;22(Supplement 1 3S):316–7
  • Gupta N, Yadav B, Sasidharan R, Tak V, Sharma A, Singh A, et al. P0657/# 2078: Alarming rates of multi-drug resistant organisms and systemic fungal sepsis among outborn neonates: a hair-raising data from a tertiary care neonatal unit in western india. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2021;22(Supplement 1 3S):317.
  • Sasidharan R, Gupta N, Yadav B, Chawla D, Singh K, Kumarendu Singh A. 25% Dextrose Versus 24% Sucrose for Heel Lancing in Preterm Infants: A Noninferiority RCT. Pediatrics. 2022 May 1;149(5).
  • Sasidharan R, Toteja N. Medical management of cerebral palsy-part 1. Kerala journal of PMR. 2022:19(4):13-16
  • Sasidharan R, Toteja N. Medical management of cerebral palsy-part 2. Kerala journal of PMR. 2022:19(4):19-24
  • Gautam G, Gupta N, Sasidharan R, Thanigainathan S, Yadav B, Singh K, et al. Systematic rotation versus continuous application of ‘nasal prongs’ or ‘nasal mask’in preterm infants on nCPAP: a randomized controlled trial. Eur J Pediatr. 2023;182(6):2645–54.
  • Raj Kumawat S, Vyas H, Mohan R, Sasidharan R, Yadav B, Gupta N. 90 versus 60 min of early skin‐to‐skin contact on exclusive breastfeeding rate in healthy infants’ ≥35 weeks: A randomised controlled trial. Acta Paediatr [Internet]. 2024 Feb [cited 2024 Jan 19];113(2):199–205.
  • Bhardwaj NK, Sasidharan R, Toteja N, Yadav B, Prasanna KL, Bishnoi B, Gupta N, Singh P, Singh K, Singh A. Implementing the practice of early skin-to-skin contact among infants≥ 35 weeks gestation born vaginally: a quality improvement study. BMJ Open Quality. 2024 Apr 1;13(Suppl 1):e002408.
  • Yadav B, Gupta N, Kumar P, Sasidharan R, Purohit P, Singh K, Sharma P, Singh A. Cutoff levels of serum 25-OH-D for defining vitamin D deficiency in early infancy. Pediatrics & Neonatology. 2025 Jan 23.
  • Abiramalatha T, Ramaswamy VV, Thanigainathan S, Yadav B, Bandyopadhyay T, Shaik NB, Devi U, Pullattayil AK, Sasidharan R, Gupta N. Comparative efficacies of vitamin D supplementation regimens in infants: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. British Journal of Nutrition. 2024:1-3.
  • Deori P, Karim H R, Sharma S J, et al. (September 29, 2025) Maternal Cardiac Arrest in Severe Preeclampsia at 34 Weeks: Successful Resuscitation, Perimortem Cesarean Section, and Dual Survival. Cureus 17(9): e93471. doi:10.7759/cureus.93471