Lovkesh Arora, MBBS, MD, FASA, E-AEC
Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesia
Current Positions
- ECMO Medical Director, Heart and Vascular Center
- Division of Critical Care Medicine
- Division of Transplant Anesthesia
Education
- MBBS in Medicine, B.J. Medical College, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India
- MD, Gujarat Cancer and Research Institute, B.J. Medical College, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India
- Residency in Anesthesiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
- Internship in General Surgery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
- Fellowship in Solid Organ Transplant Anesthesia, Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
- Fellowship in Critical Care Medicine in Critical Care Anesthesia, Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
Licenses & Certifications
- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO), Carver College of Medicine, Iowa
- Diplomate - Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography, National Board of Echocardiography
- ELSO Adult ECMO Certification (E-AEC), Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO), Iowa
- Diplomate, Critical Care Medicine, American Board of Anesthesiology
Selected Publications
- Zarka, A. N., Frogel, J., Kogan, A., Campos, J. H., Arora, L., Augoustides, J. G. & Fernando, R. J. (2025). Postoperative blindness following thymoma resection due to iatrogenic superior vena cava syndrome. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2025.05.054.
- Liao, Z. W., Peterson, J. S., Tarr, K. M. & Arora, L. (2025). A staged approach from Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (V-A ECMO) to ProtekDuo Circuit for right ventricular support in cardiogenic shock: a case report. Cureus 17 (5) e83908. DOI: 10.7759/cureus.83908.
- Campos, J. H. & Arora, L. (2025). Expert consensus on the management of pleural drains after pulmonary lobectomy. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 39 (5) 1120-1122. DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2025.01.040. PMID: 39952837.
- Campos, J. H. & Arora, L. (2025). The importance of margin distance after thoracoscopic segmentectomy for non-small cell lung cancer. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2025.04.007. PMID: 40318982.
- Battaglini, D., Kelly, T. L., Griffee, M., Fanning, J., Premraj, L., Whitman, G., Porto, D. B., Arora, R., Thomson, D., Pelosi, P., White, N. M., Bassi, G. L., Suen, J., Fraser, J. F., Robba, C., Cho, S. M. & COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium Investigators (Arora, L.). (2024). Stroke in critically ill patients with respiratory failure due to COVID-19: disparities between low-middle and high-income countries. Heart Lung 68 131-144. DOI: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2024.06.015. PMID: 38968643.
- Siddiqui, S., Arora, L., Lupei, M. I., Satyapriya, S. V., Wall, M., Cobas, M., Justice, S. & Bartz, R. (2024). What are the real issues in providing Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) support: a survey. J Intensive Care Med 39 (10) 949-957. DOI: 10.1177/08850666241245933. PMID: 38571401.
- Walsh, K. P., Hamand, M. H., Arora, L., Kaleel, M., Rappaport, C. A., Panos, A. L., Bashir, M. A., Nasr, A. S., & Singhal, A. K. (2024). Outcomes of obese coronavirus 2019 patients treated with extra corporeal membrane oxygenation. The Heart Surgery Forum 27 (6) E613-E618. DOI: 10.59958/hsf.7383.
- Cavanaugh, N. B., Nguyen, L. H., Arora, L., Singhal, A. K. & Hanada, S. (2024). Emergent veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation during aortic valve replacement following severe re-expansion pulmonary edema: a case report. SAGE Open Med Case Rep. DOI: 10.1177/2050313X241249081. PMID: 38711679. PMCID: PMC11072055.
- Sharma, S. & Arora, L. (2024). Chapter 168: Cerebral Blood Flow. In Abd-Elsayed, A. (Ed.) Basic Anesthesia Review. pp. 422-424. Cary, NC: Oxford University Press.
- Arora, L., Sharma, S. & Carillo, J. F. (2024). Obesity and anesthesia. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol 37 (3) 299-307. DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0000000000001377. PMID: 38573180.