Dr. Sumita Agrawal

Consultant - Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine

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Dr. Sumita Agrawal is working as Consultant - Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine at Medipulse hospital, Jodhpur. She specializes in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine is the first Super Specialist in Pulmonary Medicine in Western Rajasthan.

She's an expert in diseases like COPD, Asthma, ILD, occupational lung diseases like Silicosis, Sleep apnea, lung cancer, pneumonia, pleural disorders, Tuberculosis.

She performs procedures like bronchoscopy, EBUS, thoracoscopy, intercostal drainage, and sleep studies and has been trained at in the United Kingdom and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi with many publications to her credit.

Patients with symptoms like breathlessness (dama), cough, blood in cough, lung cancer, TB, fluid in the lungs often consult her.

Qualification:

MBBS - Grant Medical College and Sir J.J. Group of Hospitals, Mumbai, India - 2001-2006
MD (Medicine) - Grant Medical College and Sir J.J. Group of Hospitals, Mumbai, India - 2008-2011
MRCP(UK) - Royal College of Physicians, UK - April 2013
DM (Pulmonary & Critical Care) - Vardhaman Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India - 2015-2018
FSM (Fellowship in Sleep Medicine) - Indian Sleep Disorders Association - April 2019

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Importance of Vaccine to fight Omicron| Medipulse Review

In the battle against Omicron, vaccines continue to offer important protection against covid-19. Vaccination stimulates the body's immune response to the virus, which not only protects from the variants currently in circulation- including Omicron but is also likely to protect from future variants.

Omicron & Vaccination for Kids

With a spike in Omicron cases, more and more children, especially ones in the unvaccinated category including children are more at risk of getting the infection. Children between 15-18 years of age are eligible for vaccination right now, and every child must get vaccinated to reduce the mutation of the virus

Omicron|Dignostic Testing & Detection

As Omicron is not the only SARS-CoV-2 variant with mutations in the spike protein that can exhibit similar behavior as other variants, it is difficult to diagnose whether the patients are infected from Omicron or any other variant. According to our experts, the ability of an RT-PCR Covid19, test is proven to be a useful diagnostic tool to identify and isolate carriers of the Omicron variant.

Omicron Infectivity Rate & Symptoms| Explained

Omicron is another COVID19 variant. According to our doctor, this new variant has a higher infectivity rate which means even the least amount of exposure is harmful to you. But the upside to Omicron is that it is mild in nature, which means fewer hospitalizations and faster recovery. Even though, we suggest you mask up and be safe

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