Dr. Avijatri Datta is a highly accomplished Critical Care Specialist with over a decade of experience across leading tertiary hospitals in Kolkata. He holds prestigious international and national certifications, including EDICM, MRCP (UK), FCCCM, and SCE in Acute Medicine. A certified BLS/ACLS instructor under the American Heart Association, Dr. Datta is actively involved in academics, research, and quality improvement initiatives. His expertise spans advanced life support, ICU ultrasound, ventilation strategies, and complex sepsis management.

Educational Qualifications:

• MBBS – University of Calcutta
• European Diploma in Intensive Care Medicine (EDICM)
• Speciality Certificate in Acute Medicine (SCE – UK)
• Indian Diploma in Critical Care Medicine (IDCCM)
• Certificate of Training in Critical Care Medicine (CTCCM)
• Fellowship of College of Critical Care Medicine (FCCCM)
• MRCP (UK) – General Medicine

Professional Experience:

• Consultant – Critical Care Medicine, Manipal Hospitals, EM Bypass, Kolkata – Present
• Attending Consultant – Critical Care, Medica Superspecialty Hospital, Kolkata
• Clinical roles at:
  • Ruby General Hospital, Kolkata
  • Woodlands Multispeciality Hospital, Kolkata
• Corporate Healthcare Experience:
  • Sun Knowledge – Disease Management & Therapeutic Optimisation

Professional Memberships:

• Associate Life Member- Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM).
• Member, AHA (American Heart Association).
• Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom MRCP (UK).

Awards and Achievements:

• Critical Care Nursing Workshop on behalf of Medica Institute of Critical care Medicine, Medica Superspecialty Hospitals, Kolkata, September2024 as Faculty.
• Acute and Critical Care Conclave on behalf of Medica Institute of Critical care Medicine, Medica Superspecialty Hospitals, Kolkata, September 2024 as Faculty.
• 26thAnnual Congress of Indian Society of Critical Care, Indore 2023.
• AMRICON 2022 (Year in Review 2021) Kolkata, January 2022.
• Medicine Update2019 (year in review course) Kolkata, February 2019.
• Critical care Update2019 (year in review course) Kolkata January 2019.
• 25thAnnual Congress of Indian Society of Critical Care, Mumbai 2019.
• 24thAnnual Congress of Indian Society of Critical Care, Varanasi 2018.
• MEDICON International 2018 at Kolkata as a delegate.
• Workshop on Mechanical Ventilation at the ISACON, 2017 at Kolkata.
• DIME part II (DATA INTERPRETATION MADE EASY) at Medica Superspecialty Hospital, Kolkata on June -2017.
• 23rdAnnual Congress of Indian Society of Critical Care, Kochi 2017.
• 22ndAnnual Congress of Indian Society of Critical Care, Agra 2016.
• 21th Annual Congress of Indian Society of Critical Care, Bangalore 2015.
• 20th Annual Congress of Indian Society of Critical Care, Jaipur, 2014.
• EDIC Workshop- Kolkata, 2014.
• Comprehensive Critical Care Course (4C), Kolkata, 2014.
• ACLS/BLS course as a faculty, Guwahati, 2014.
• ACLS/BLS course as a faculty, Kolkata , 2014.
• ACLS/BLS course as a faculty, Mumbai, 2014.
• 4th International Patient Safety Conference, Kolkata 2014.
• Quality core group member in NABH Surveillance Audit at Medica Superspecialty hospital from ICU & Clinical Research, November -2014.
• 19th Annual Congress of Indian Society of Critical Care, Kolkata, 2013.
• ICU Understanding Program as a faculty, Kolkata, 2013.
• 4th Advanced Certificate Course on Applied Enteral Pharmaconutrition in Critical Care, Chennai, 2013.
• ATLS (American College of Surgeons’ Advanced Trauma Life Support) Instructor Course, New Delhi, 2013.
• Critical Care Ultrasound from WINFOCUS, Kolkata, 2013.
• Eastern Regional Symposium- Conduct of Clinical Trials, Good Clinical Practice, Kolkata, 2013.
• Received Certificate of appreciation for actively contributing and participating in the implementation of the Quality Management Systems towards the NABH accreditation at Medica Superspecialty Hospital, Kolkata as a team Member- February 2013.
• ACLS/BLS course as a faculty, Kolkata (August), 2013.
• ACLS/BLS course as a faculty, Kolkata (June), 2013.
• BLS course as a faculty, Kolkata (September) , 2013
• Fundamental Critical Care Support Course (FCCS), Kolkata, 2013.
• Implementation of Quality Management Systems, Kolkata, 2013.
• ATLS (American College of Surgeons’ Advanced Trauma Life Support) Student Course, New Delhi, 2012.
• BLS/ACLS Instructor Course, Kolkata(June), 2012.
• BLS/ACLS Provider Course, Kolkata(March), 2012.
• Internal Counselor Program on NABH Standards, Kolkata, 2012.
• Good Clinical Practice(GCP) Workshop, Kolkata- September 2012.
• Basic Hemodynamic Workshop, Kolkata, 2011.
• Advanced Airway Workshop, Kolkata, 2011.
• Workshop on Good Clinical Practice, Kolkata, 2010.
• HIV/AIDS Prevention & Treatment Awareness, Kolkata, 2007.
• Critical Care Update, Kolkata, 2007.
• Ventilation of the diseased lung, Kolkata, 2003.

Publications:

• Spectrum of Plant Toxin and Deliberate Self-poisoning Tanmay Banerjee, Avijatri Datta Citation Information : Banerjee T, Datta A. Spectrum of Plant Toxin and Deliberate Self-poisoning. Indian J Crit Care Med 2021; 25 (4):364-365.
• Improving hand hygiene compliance leads to improved health outcome: an analysis, V Rao*, A Datta and A Kar: Critical Care 2015, 19(Suppl1):P82 doi:10.1186/cc1416.
• In vitro antimicrobial susceptibility of fosfomycin against organisms isolated from various clinical specimens: a multicentre trial from Kolkata. A Chakraborty, S Roy, S Chakraborty, A Datta and A Kar: Critical Care 2015, 19(Suppl1):P96 doi:10.1186/cc14176
• Payment options: do they affect outcome in the critically ill. A Kar and A Datta: Critical Care 2015, 19(Suppl1):P561 doi:10.1186/cc14641.
• Readmission to the ICU: is it a big concern? An analysis A Ahmed, A Datta and A Kar Critical Care 2015, 19(Suppl1):P563 doi:10.1186/cc14643.
• Skewed antibiogram of community-acquired urinary isolates and the therapeutic dilemma. A Chakraborty, S Roy, A Datta and A Kar. Critical Care 2015, 19(Suppl1): P99 doi:10.1186/cc14179.
• Kar, A Datta A, Banerjee T, 2015, ‘Readmission to ICU-is it a big concern? An analysis’Paper presented at 21st Annual Conference of Critical Care Medicine, Criticare 2015, March 4-6 ; Bangalore, India.
• Datta A, Kar A, Debnath S, Panja S, 2015, ‘Predicted mortality rate (PMR) as a tool to analyze ICU performance’. Poster presented at 21st Annual Conference of Critical Care Medicine, Criticare 2015, March 4-6; Bangalore, India.
• Kar, A , Datta, A., Banerjee, T, 2015. Payment options- do they affect outcome in critically ill’ Poster presented at 21st Annual Conference of Critical Care Medicine, Criticare 2015, March 4-6; Bangalore, India.
• Rao, VRA, Datta A, Kar A, 2015. ‘ Systemic barriers and interventions to bring down the turnaround time to first dose antibiotics in sepsis patients’ Poster presented at 21st Annual Conference of Critical Care Medicine, Criticare 2015, March 4-6; Bangalore, India.
• Bose P, Kar A, Datta A, Debnath S, Panja S, Ahmed A. 2015. A Source of ICU admission- does it really matter? An analysis Poster presented at the 21st Annual Conference of Critical Care Medicine, Criticare 2015, March 4-6; Bangalore, India.
• Rao, VRA, Datta A, Kar A, Datta A, Debnath S, Panja S, Ahmed A, 2015 ‘VAP care bundle, an efficient tool to reduce VAP: experience from a tertiary care ICU in Kolkata’ Poster presented at 21st Annual Conference of Critical Care Medicine, Criticare 2015, March 4-6; Bangalore, India.
• Rao, VRA, Datta A, Kar A, Datta A, 2015. Improving hand hygiene compliance leads to improved health outcome - an analysis. Poster presented at 21st Annual Conference of Critical Care Medicine, Criticare 2015, March 4-6; Bangalore, India.
• Chakravarti S, Datta A, Kar A, Datta A, Debnath S, Panja S, Ahmed A , 2015 ‘Identifying nutritional practices by digital photography’ Poster presented at 21st Annual Conference of Critical Care Medicine, Criticare 2015, March 4-6; Bangalore, India.
• Datta A, Kar A, 2015 ‘Using standardized mortality ratio (SMR) as a measure of ICU performance- is it adequate?’ Poster presented at 21st Annual Conference of Critical Care Medicine, Criticare 2015, March 4-6; Bangalore, India.