Dr Swapna Mandal

BSC, MBBS, FRCP, PHD

Consultant Respiratory Physician

Dr Mandal has a sub-specialist interest in sleep and ventilation. She has spent four years pursuing research in this field at a renowned sleep and ventilation centre, particularly in individuals with obesity and sleep disordered breathing.

Hospital Locations

Royal Free Hospital

Country of qualification

Languages spoken

English

Specialities

Respiratory Medicine

Registration and licensing

GMC:6077117

Procedures offered

Bronchoscopies
Management of sleep Ventilation and complex breathlessness

Special interests

Dr Mandal led the Royal Free’s sleep and ventilation service to win ‘diagnostic team of the year’ at the 2019 BMJ awards. The team cut the time patients wait for a diagnosis from 239 days to just 40. Dr Mandal, sleep and ventilation consultant, said she was thrilled to have won the award. “We’re really honoured and overwhelmed to have won – it’s thrilling,” she added. “Thank you to all the members of the team, we have worked so hard to devise new ways of treating patients so that we could reduce the waiting time for a diagnosis.”

Published papers

A cohort study to identify simple clinical tests for chronic respiratory failure in obese patients with sleep disordered breathing. S. Mandal, E. Suh, E. Boleat, W. Asher, M. Kamalanathan, K. Lee, A. Douiri, P.B. Murphy, J. Steier, N. Hart. BMJ Open Respiratory Research 2014;1e000022
Admission prevention in COPD: non-pharmacological management. E. Suh, S. Mandal, N. Hart, BMC medicine 2013; 11:247
E. Suh, S. Mandal, R. Harding, M. Ramsay, M. Kamalanathan, K. Henderson, K. O’Kane, A. Douiri, N. Hopkinson, M.I. Pollkey, G. Rafferty, P.B. Murphy, J. Moxham, N. Hart. Neural respiratory drive predicts clinical deterioration and safe discharge in exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Thorax 2015;70:1123-1130.
Jaffer, A; Devani, N; Brown, J; Mandal, S; Lipman, M; (2017) HIV and respiratory illness in the antiretroviral therapy era. Annals of Research Hospitals , 1 , Article 43. 10.21037/arh.2017.09.05
M. Ramsay, S. Mandal, E. Suh, J. Steier, A. Douiri, P. Murphy, M. Polkey, A. Simonds, N. Hart. Parasternal Electromyography to Determine the Relationship between Patient-Ventilator Asynchrony and Nocturnal Gas Exchange during Home Mechanical Ventilation Set Up. Thorax 2015;70:946-952.
Mandal S, Suh E, Harding R, Vaughan-France A, Ramsay M, Connolly B, Bear D, MacLaughlin H, Greenwood S, Polkey M, Elliott M, Chen T, Douiri A, Moxham J, Murphy PB, Hart N. Nutrition and Exercise Rehabilitation in Obesity hypoventilation syndrome (NERO): a pilot randomised controlled trial. Thorax 2018;73:62-69.
Mansell SK, Cutts S, Hackney I, Wood MJ, Hawksworth K, Creer D, Kilbride C, Mandal S. Using domiciliary non-invasive ventilator data downloads to inform clinical decision-making to optimise ventilation delivery and patient compliance. BMJ Open Respiratory Research 2018;5:e000238. doi: 10.1136/bmjresp-2017-000238
Medium-term cost-effectiveness of an automated non-invasive ventilation outpatient versus a standard fixed level non-invasive ventilation set-up in obese patients with chronic respiratory failure: a protocol description, S. Mandal, G. Arbane, P . Murphy, MW Elliott, JP. Janssens, JL. Pepin, Jf. Muir, A. Cuvelier, M. Polkey, D. Parkin, A. Douiri, N. Hart., BMJ Open 2015;5:4 e007082 doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2014-007082 ePub ahead of print
Neural respiratory drive predicts clinical deterioration and safe discharge in exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. E. Suh, S. Mandal, R. Harding, M. Ramsay, M. Kamalanathan, K. Henderson, K. O’Kane, A. Douiri, N. Hopkinson, M.I. Pollkey, G. Rafferty, P.B. Murphy, J. Moxham, N. Hart. Accepted for publication by Thorax
Obesity hypoventilation syndrome: does the current definition need revisting? N. Hart, S. Mandal, A. Manuel, B. Mokhlesi, JL Pepin, A, Piper, J.Stradling. Thorax 2013; 69:1: 83-84
Parasternal Electromyography to Determine the Relationship between Patient-Ventilator Asynchrony and Nocturnal Gas Exchange during Home Mechanical Ventilation Set Up. M. Ramsay, S. Mandal, E. Suh, J. Steier, A. Douiri, P. Murphy, M. Polkey, A. Simonds, N. Hart
Provision of Home Mechanical Ventilation and Sleep Services for England Survey.S. Mandal, E. Suh, M. Davies, I. Smith, T.M. Maher, M.W. Elliott, A.C. Davidson, N. Hart. Thorax 2013;68:9;880-881
The Use of a Prospective Audit Proforma to Improve Door-to-Mask times for Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Requiring Non-Invasive Ventilation.. Mandal, T.Q. Howes, M. Parker, C.M. Roberts. COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 2014: 11 (6):645-651.
Mandal S & Kent BD. Obstructive sleep apnoea and coronary artery disease. Journal of Thoracic Disease 2018;; 10 (suppl 34):S4212-S4220
Mansell SK, Cutts S, Hackney I, Wood MJ, Hawksworth K, Creer D, Kilbride C, Mandal S. Using domiciliary non-invasive ventilator data downloads to inform clinical decision-making to optimise ventilation delivery and patient compliance. BMJ Open Respiratory Research 2018;;5:e000238. doi: 10.1136/bmjresp- 2017-000238
Mandal S, Suh E, Harding R, Vaughan-France A, Ramsay M, Connolly B, Bear D, MacLaughlin H, Greenwood S, Polkey M, Elliott M, Chen T, Douiri A, Moxham J, Murphy PB, Hart N. Nutrition and Exercise Rehabilitation in Obesity hypoventilation syndrome (NERO): a pilot randomised controlled trial. Thorax 2018;;73:62-69.
Jaffer, A;; Devani, N;; Brown, J;; Mandal, S;; Lipman, M;; (2017) HIV and respiratory illness in the antiretroviral therapy era. Annals of Research Hospitals , 1 , Article 43. 10.21037/arh.2017.09.05
Ramsay, S. Mandal, E. Suh, J. Steier, A. Douiri, P. Murphy, M. Polkey, A. Simonds,

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