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Dr. Girishkumar Modi

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Dr. Girishkumar Modi

A senior specialist anesthesiologist at Sheikh Tahnoon Bin Mohammed Medical City and Tawam Hospital (SEHA) in the United Arab Emirates.

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Girishkumar Modi is a senior specialist anesthesiologist at Sheikh Tahnoon Bin Mohammed Medical City and Tawam Hospital (SEHA) in the United Arab Emirates. His clinical practice includes regional anesthesia, trauma and orthopedic anesthesia, neuroanesthesia and spine anesthesia, obstetric anesthesia, pediatric anesthesia, perioperative medicine, and the management of complex surgical patients. He serves as faculty in an anesthesiology residency program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education International, where he contributes to resident teaching, clinical supervision, assessment, and mentorship. He also contributes to trauma-service development and multidisciplinary perioperative care.

His academic interests include perioperative physiology and pharmacology, regional anesthesia, total intravenous anesthesia, acute pain management, point-of-care coagulation and hemostasis, medical education, health care economics, and perioperative patient safety. He is active in clinical research, medical writing, and peer review, with publications spanning anesthesiology, pharmacology, perioperative medicine, regional anesthesia, point-of-care coagulation and rotational thromboelastometry, and medical education. His work has appeared in the Mathews Journal of Anesthesia, the Journal of Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, and Anaesthesia, with abstracts presented at the Association of Anaesthetists Winter Scientific Meeting in London and the Integrated Anesthesia and Comprehensive Care Conference in Abu Dhabi.

He also writes commentary on clinical judgment, artificial intelligence, and patient readiness for surgery, including rapid responses in The BMJ such as "Medicine is not a 64-square board: Human oversight requires independent judgment" and "AI systems need a tested exit plan."

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Chronic kidney disease can hide behind a normal blood test

A normal creatinine result can be reassuring. But for someone with diabetes, high blood pressure, or another risk factor for kidney disease, it may answer only part of the question. Creatinine helps us estimate how well the kidneys filter blood.…

A normal creatinine result can be reassuring. But for someone with diabetes, high blood pressure, or another risk factor for kidney disease, it may answer only part of the question. Creatinine helps us estimate how well the kidneys filter blood. It does not tell us whether albumin, a protein normally kept in the bloodstream, is leaking into the urine. Before we describe a kidney assessment as complete, we should know …

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Chronic kidney disease can hide behind a normal blood test

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Anesthesia standards should follow the patient, not the room

More procedures are now performed far from the traditional operating room. Endoscopy units, interventional radiology suites, cardiac catheterization laboratories, and MRI rooms routinely host patients who need sedation or anesthesia. That expansion is a clinical success. But the room label…

More procedures are now performed far from the traditional operating room. Endoscopy units, interventional radiology suites, cardiac catheterization laboratories, and MRI rooms routinely host patients who need sedation or anesthesia.

That expansion is a clinical success. But the room label can create a misleading sense that the anesthesia is somehow less consequential.

Sedative and anesthetic drugs affect breathing, airway tone, blood pressure, and consciousness wherever they are given. In an endoscopy room, …

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Anesthesia standards should follow the patient, not the room

Conditions and diseases

Your anesthesia care starts before the operating room

Many patients meet their anesthesiologist only a few minutes before surgery. So it can look as if our job starts there. Actually, a lot has already happened before you enter the operating room. We are looking at your medical history,…

Many patients meet their anesthesiologist only a few minutes before surgery. So it can look as if our job starts there. Actually, a lot has already happened before you enter the operating room.

We are looking at your medical history, your medicines, previous anesthetics, allergies, heart and lung problems, diabetes, sleep apnea, recent illness, and anything that may affect surgery. We also think about the operation itself. How long will it …

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Your anesthesia care starts before the operating room

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What to tell your anesthesiologist, even if it feels small

Before surgery, anesthesiologists ask many questions. What medicines are you taking? Do you have any allergies? Have you had anesthesia before? Do you smoke or drink alcohol? Do you take any supplements? Do you snore heavily or use a CPAP…

Before surgery, anesthesiologists ask many questions. What medicines are you taking? Do you have any allergies? Have you had anesthesia before? Do you smoke or drink alcohol? Do you take any supplements? Do you snore heavily or use a CPAP machine?

Some patients answer comfortably. Others hesitate. That is understandable. A few questions may feel personal, and sometimes patients worry that the doctor may judge them. They may also think that …

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What to tell your anesthesiologist, even if it feels small

Conditions and diseases

Pain score after surgery should not define recovery

After surgery, patients are often asked a familiar question: "How bad is your pain on a scale from zero to ten?" Naturally, most people want that number to be zero. As doctors, we want our patients to be comfortable too.…

After surgery, patients are often asked a familiar question: “How bad is your pain on a scale from zero to ten?” Naturally, most people want that number to be zero. As doctors, we want our patients to be comfortable too. But after many operations, completely removing every trace of pain may not be realistic. And sometimes, trying too hard to reach zero can create problems of its own.

A better question …

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Pain score after surgery should not define recovery

Conditions and diseases

What being cleared for surgery does not actually mean

A patient arrives for surgery after weeks of waiting. They have fasted, taken time off work, arranged transport, and prepared themselves mentally for the operation. Then the anesthesiologist says, "I think we should wait." For the patient, this can be…

A patient arrives for surgery after weeks of waiting. They have fasted, taken time off work, arranged transport, and prepared themselves mentally for the operation. Then the anesthesiologist says, “I think we should wait.”

For the patient, this can be frustrating. “I feel fine.” “Why can’t we just go ahead?” These are understandable questions. But one of the less visible parts of an anesthesiologist’s job is deciding not only how to …

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What being cleared for surgery does not actually mean

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