Senior Consultant, Medicine & Senior Director, Critical Care — Desun Hospital, Kolkata
MBBS · MD (Medicine) · IDCCM · FNB (Critical Care) · FICCM · PDCR
Internal Medicine & Multiorgan Care · Critical Care Medicine · Mechanical Ventilation · Hemodynamic Monitoring · AI in Critical Care
Dr. Mohit Kharbanda is a Consultant in Internal Medicine with 28 years of experience and a nationally reputed superspecialist in Critical Care. He is Senior Consultant in Internal Medicine and Senior Director of Critical Care at Desun Hospital & Heart Institute, Kolkata — a 750-bed tertiary care centre with a 190-bed critical care unit, including the only dedicated burns unit among corporate hospitals in the city. He heads the Department of Critical Care and supervises all Critical Care Consultants at the hospital, and has been closely involved in its JCI accreditation and multiple NABH assessments.
In general medicine, he manages conditions such as severe infections, pneumonia, diabetes, uric acid disorders, thyroid disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, dengue, malaria, and anemia. In the ICU, he manages the full spectrum of critical illness — sepsis, severe pneumonia, respiratory failure, heart failure, multiple trauma, shock, acute kidney failure, liver failure, and multiorgan failure, including patients requiring mechanical ventilation, dialysis, and care for severe burns.
A graduate of Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal (MBBS, 1996) and Gajra Raja Medical College, Gwalior (MD, General Medicine, 2001), he trained further in critical care at Escorts Hospital & Research Centre, Faridabad, and AMRI Hospitals and Calcutta Medical Research Institute, Kolkata, before taking on his current leadership role at Desun Hospital. He holds the IDCCM, FNB (Critical Care), and FICCM qualifications.
He is a National Board–recognized teacher in Critical Care, with DrNB Critical Care students training under him, and serves as Faculty & Examiner for DrNB Critical Care under the National Board of Examinations and as Consultant & Course Director for FCCS (Fundamental Critical Care Support). His academic interests centre on mechanical ventilation and hemodynamic monitoring, with a growing focus on the application of AI in critical care — alongside a personal interest in applying AI to financial markets.
Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal · 1996
Gajra Raja Medical College, Gwalior · 2001
Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine
Fellowship of National Board, India
Fellowship of Indian College of Critical Care Medicine
Professional Diploma in Clinical Research
No-Code AI & Machine Learning · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Healthcare Sector Skill Council
National Board of Examinations
Fundamental Critical Care Support Course · Society of Critical Care Medicine
Assessment and management of complex, critically ill patients with multiorgan involvement, spanning internal medicine, sepsis, and multisystem failure.
Focused expertise in managing patients with complex and prolonged ventilatory requirements — from difficult-to-oxygenate ARDS and refractory hypoxemia to weaning failure and tracheostomy planning. Experienced in advanced ventilator strategies, lung-protective and rescue modes, and bedside interpretation of ventilator graphics to guide moment-to-moment decisions in the sickest patients.
Special interest in patients with complex hemodynamic instability — undifferentiated and mixed shock states, right heart failure, and the interplay between ventilation and circulation in the critically ill. Uses advanced monitoring (including transthoracic echocardiography at the bedside) to individualize fluid, vasopressor, and inotropic therapy rather than relying on fixed protocols.
Broad-spectrum ICU practice spanning sepsis and septic shock, multiorgan failure, acute pancreatitis, burns, and post-surgical critical illness, in a high-turnover unit examining and managing 40–50 critically ill patients daily. Emphasis on protocol-driven care combined with individualized decision-making for the most complex, multisystem cases.
Faculty & Examiner for DrNB Critical Care under the National Board of Examinations, and Consultant & Course Director for FCCS. Regularly mentors residents, fellows, nurses, and technicians at the bedside, and has taught mechanical ventilation and hemodynamic monitoring at national and zonal ISCCM conferences and workshops for over a decade.
Book chapters, peer-reviewed research, and multinational collaborative studies. Tap a tile to open the full list.
Co-investigator with the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC), a global multinational research network.
Invited faculty roles and courses/conferences organised. Tap a tile to open the full list.
A personal interest outside clinical practice — small AI-assisted tools built for critical care workflows.
A bedside insulin-dosing calculator covering both subcutaneous basal-bolus regimens for the ward and IV insulin infusion titration for critical care, with weight-based dosing and correction factors.
Try it →An AI-assisted bedside reference for critical care — a clinical-scenario consult tool, PK dosing advisor, and infusion calculator, plus a DrNB Critical Care board-exam question simulator.
Try it →Enter current and previous FiO2, P/F ratio, temperature, WBC and CRP values; the model tracks the trend and predicts the risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Try it →A risk-prediction calculator built for Indian ICU patients, combining demographics, SOFA score, and renal, metabolic and hematological parameters into a bedside risk estimate.
Try it →Conference, faculty, and workshop photos.
ISCCM National Conference, Chennai · 2026
ISCCM National Conference, Chennai · 2026
ISCCM National Conference, Chennai · 2026
ISCCM Kolkata Chapter Annual Conference · 2026
ISCCM Kolkata Chapter Annual Conference · 2026
GPCON Kolkata · 2025
GPCON Kolkata · 2025
GPCON Kolkata · 2025
Critical Care Conclave, Manipal · 2025
Critical Care Conclave, Manipal · 2025
FCCS Course · 2025
AI in Medicine Symposium, Hyderabad · 2026
Email: contact@drmohitkharbanda.com
Practice: Desun Hospital, Kolkata