Dr. Manojit Layek
M.B.B.S., F-ECMO, FCCCM Clinical Associate
Critical Care Physician
Critical Care Physician
Speciality:
Anaesthesia & Critical Care
Years of experience:
9 Years of Experience
E-mail:
contacticuindia@gmail.com
Phone:
+91-9116877364
Biography
Dr. Manojit Layek is a Clinical Associate and Critical Care Physician with strong expertise in emergency medicine, trauma stabilization, and the management of critically ill patients. He specializes in Extra-Corporeal Life Support systems and plays a front-runner role in ECLS teams in Eastern India, handling ECMO, ECCO₂R, IABP, and other advanced circulatory supports. His clinical experience spans post-operative cardiac and thoracic transplant care, airway and ventilatory interventions, and renal replacement therapies. Dr. Layek has also taken on administrative responsibilities involving accreditation audits and infection control programs and is actively involved in training paramedical and nursing staff. He holds an M.B.B.S. and has completed fellowship training in ECMO sciences, with ongoing advanced critical care specialization.
Key Skills
- Emergency Medicine.
- Trauma Care and Stabilization.
- Management of critically-ill patients.
- Post-operative stabilization & management.
- Point-of-care Ultrasound.
- Airway handling and breathing systems (Intubation & mechanical ventilation).
- Difficult airway Intervention.
- One-Lung ventilation strategies and methods.
- Inter-costal Chest drain placement.
- Thoracocenteses & Pig-Tail catheter placement.
- Advanced Airway Interventions (Crico-Thyroidotomy, Tracheostomy, etc.)
- Bronchoscopies and Endoscopies.
- Pain management & Nerve Blocks / Regional Anesthesia.
- Epidural Anesthesia.
- General Anesthesia and TIVA / Sedation.
- Lumbar Puncture & Spinal Anesthesia.
- Establishing venous access, invasive arterial accesses, central venous catheters
- Bedside Supra-Pubic Catheterization (Emergent).
- Hemodialysis catheters and Tunneled Cuffed Catheter (TCC) placement / Perma-Cath placement.
- Temporary Pacemaker insertion (TPI).
- Mechanical Circulatory Support (IABP, ECMO, CRRT).
- Renal Replacement Therapies (SLED, Peritoneal Dialysis, CVVHDF, Haemadsorption).
- Pulmonary Arterial Catheterisation (Swan-Ganz)
- Pulse Index Continuous Cardiac Output Monitoring (PiCCO)
- ECLS Cannulation & Initiation.
Education
- ADVANCED FELLOWSHIP IN CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE (AFIC) – Ongoing
- FELLOW OF THE COLLEGE OF CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE (FCCCM) – Batch of 2024 – 2025
- FELLOWSHIP & LICENSURE IN ECMO SCIENCES (F-ECMO) – Batch of 2023 – 2024
- M.B.B.S, College of Medicine & JNM Hospital, Kalyani, West Bengal – Batch of 2013 – 2018
- I.C.S.E. (10) & I.S.C. (12), Salt Lake School – March 2011 & March 2013.
Work Experience
1. CLINICAL ASSOCIATE Cardio-Pulmonary Critical Care & ECMO Services, Apollo Multispeciality Hospitals Ltd., Kolkata- March 2023 to Ongoing
- Initiation & maintenance of over 40+ ECLS cases.
- Post-operative care for 2 Lung Transplantation cases.
- Management of more than 50 cases on CRRT, more than 300 cases on SLED / mHD.
- Attending for a 36-bedded unit (22 ICU beds + 14 HDU beds)
- Organizer for two Institutional Conferences of International acclaim – RESPICON 2023, ECMO INDIA 2025.
- Management & Maintenance of Apollo e-ICU Program (e-ACCESS) as a Huband-Spoke Model.
- Outreach training programs – NTPC Barh, NTPC North Karanpura, IOCL Barauni, etc. for training ground staff.
2. Residency in Intensive Care - During COVID pandemic (Locum Basis) - Multi-centric - March 2020 to April 2021
- Handling of large-volume caseload amounting to almost >50 admissions in 24 – hour time period.
- Management of ARDS – Prone ventilation, Ventilatory strategies, etc.
3. JUNIOR RESIDENT (NON-ACADEMIC) Department of Anaesthesiology, College of Medicine & JNM Hospital, Kalyani, West Bengal - March 2019 to March 2020
4. R.M.O., Critical Care Unit Manorama Hospitex Pvt. Ltd., Ranaghat, West Bengal - July 2019 to December 2019
5. INTERNSHIP, College of Medicine & JNM Hospital, Kalyani, West Bengal - March 2018 to March 2019
Current Key Responsibilities
1. PART OF & FRONT-RUNNER FOR EXTRA-CORPOREAL LIFE SUPPORT (ECLS) TEAM IN EASTERN INDIA.
- Transport & Stabilization of Critically-Ill Patients.
- Air-Transport , Air-Ambulance support.
- Cannulation & Initiation of ECLS support.
- ECMO, ECCO2R, L-VAD, IABP and other Mechanical circulatory supports.
2. ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Audit facing front-runner for NABH, JCI accreditations.
- Part of Institutional Infection Control Committee.
- Upholding of documentation compliance – as per hospital policies; liaising with Medical Records Department.
3. Training & Education of Para-medics and Allied Sciences’ Staff
4. CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Daily rounds, Patient management, Patient Family Education & Grief counselling.
- Procedural support & interventions – as required.
- Anti-microbial stewardship.
- Liaising with IP Pharmacy for narcotic scrutiny and control.
- Tele-medicine consultation, Tele-ICU management & outreach program.