Brief Introduction Of The Department Of Anesthesiology
The modern Anaesthesia is comparatively of recent origin dating back to a century and half, before which “Surgery was an agony”. Introduction of general Anaesthesia combined with aseptic techniques, permitted increasingly extensive and complex operations to be performed. Duties have extended beyond operating rooms to cardiopulmonary resuscitation, critical care and pain management services.
The Department of Anaesthesiology offers undergraduate teaching programs and research and administration in various areas throughout the hospital.
It also provides expertise in the care of critical patients in ICU, and management of acute and chronic pain. The scope of anaesthesiology includes non-surgery related pain management, management of painful syndromes; monitoring, restoring and maintaining haemostasis; teaching CPR and evaluating and applying respiratory therapy.
The anaesthesiology team comprises specialist doctors with training in hemodynamic monitoring, management of Thoracic, and Lumbar pain, blocks under ultrasound guidance, fibre optic intubation and intra and post-operative ventilator management.
Significant Features
- The department has a 24 hours per-operative service, suitable enough to handle any kind of surgical emergencies and critical care of the patients.
- The department provides expertise in airway management, resuscitation and trauma management.
- The department of Anaesthesiology extends its dedicated service to all surgical specialities. These include General surgery, Orthopaedics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Otorhinolaryngology, Ophthalmology, Oncology, Neurosurgery and Urosurgery.
- Care of critical patients in intensive care unit.• Care of critical patients in intensive care unit.
- Fully equipped air conditioned 10 major operation theatres and 06 minor operation theatres. It comprises with remote controlled tables, halogen shadow less lights with cameras beaming the proceedings
- Fully automated anaesthesia workstations, multi-Para monitors in every OT; specialized equipment like nerve locator, nerve mapper, fiberscope, and a difficult intubation cart
- Critical with ventilators for patient requiring ventilator support including non-invasive ventilation and BIPAP machines.
