Dr. Sasanka Sekhar Dhara
MBBS, DA, FFARCSI, FANZCA
Creator – Naga® Tracheal Intubation System
Director – Naga Wire -Tracking Tracheal Tube Pty Ltd, Hobart, Australia
Trained and worked in teaching institutions in India, Iran, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Singapore, and Australia.
Some of the past posts held
Director, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive care, Singapore General Hospital (1989-1993), Singapore, Associate Professor, Anaesthesia, National University of Singapore (1993-2001), Chief Examiner, Anaesthesia, School of Postgraduate studies, National University of Singapore (1994-1999).
Voluntary work in Mongolia, West Samoa, Kingdom of Tonga.
Currently attached to-
Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine,
Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, as Visiting Medical Personnel / research.
Some of my publications on airway management :
S S Dhara, T W Cheong. An adjustable multiple angle laryngoscope adaptor. Anaesthesia & Intensive Care 1991; 19: 243-245.
P J Butler, S S Dhara. Prediction of Difficult Laryngoscopy: An Assessment of the Thyromental distance and Mallampati Predictive Tests. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care 1992; 20: 139-142.
S S Dhara. A Multilumen catheter-guide for difficult airway management. Its uses in Anaethesia and Intensive Care. Anaesthesia 1994; 49: 974-978.
S S Dhara. Retrograde Tracheal Intubation. (Review) Anaesthesia 2009, Oct 64; 1094-1104.
S S Dhara, D J McGlone, M W Skinner Development of a new system for guidewire assisted intubation: mannikin and cadaver evaluation. Anaesthesia 2016; 72: 44-9.