<html><center><font color=“white” size=“+4”>Department of Anesthesiology</font> </center></html>
The department of anaesthesiology was founded in 1964. At present, the Department provides protocolled anaesthesia and ICU services to General Surgery, Obstetric and Gynaecology, ENT, Orthopaedics, Urology, Paediatric Surgery, GI surgery, Ophthalmic, plastic surgery, neurosurgery and provides peripheral anaesthesia services to interventional radiology, MRI, CT scan, ECT, acute and chronic pain services, resuscitation and obstetric analgesia services. Anaesthesia department also provided intensive care services to the Surgical ICU.
Over the years, along with the development of Medical Sciences, the Department has set up its own high standards in patient care, education, and research. All operation theatres are equipped with state of the art anaesthesia machines, facilities for invasive blood pressure, CVP monitoring, BIS monitoring and ultrasonography for regional anaesthesia blocks and for vascular access.
All postgraduate students are rotated in all surgical specialties, Intensive Care, Pre-Anesthesia clinics and Pain clinics. The Department has fixed guidelines for anaesthetic procedures to be undertaken and the curriculum planning for the junior residents. Thesis writing is mandatory for partial fulfilment for the final MD examination. Post graduate teaching programme consists of seminars, journal clubs, case discussion, tutorials, and Guest lectures. All Junior and Senior Residents take part in the didactic teaching activities regularly under the faculty moderation. This is in addition to daily teaching activity based on the cases conducted in the operation theatres & Intensive Care Unit.