Dummy Department Patient Care
November 15, 2023 2023-11-17 6:57Dummy Department Patient Care
Doctors in the department of anaesthesiology anaesthetise patients of all age group including pre-term infants to Geriatric age. Department has facilities for anaesthetising patients coming for surgeries under various departments like General Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Orthopaedics, ENT, Ophthalmology, Neurosurgery, Plastic Surgery, Urology, Paediatric Surgery, Cardiac Surgery and Oro-facio-maxillary Surgery. Anaesthesia services outside OT include Pre-anaesthetic evaluation clinic, Electroconvulsive therapy, and during Endoscopies. Department has a variety of airway gadgets like Laryngoscopes, Laryngeal Mask Airways, Fibreoptic bronchoscope, bougie etc. for managing difficult airways. Other facilities include invasive blood pressure monitoring, Peripheral nerve stimulator for giving nerve blocks and USG for nerve blocks and central venous cannulation.
Treatment Facilities
- Postoperative pain relief with Patient – controlled Analgesia method is in regular use.
- 2 Ultrasound machines are in regular use for nerve blocks and invasive procedures,diagnostic purp.
- Anaesthesiologists also regularly perform tracheostomies, central line insertions and CT and MRI procedures under sedation.
- Pain clinic for chronic pain management (on every Monday) and chronic pain relief procedure are being carried out by the department. A team of trained Anaesthesiologists is involved in various forms of treatment such as Labour Analgesia and “Pain clinic” for chronic pain management.
They are involved in Intensive Care of patients admitted in various ICUs. Patients requiring anaesthesia services here are generally sicker, with multiple co-morbid diseases like diabetes, hypertension, coronary artery disease, stroke, respiratory diseases, renal failure, deranged liver function etc who require advanced monitoring and expert handling to ensure safety, faster recovery and better outcome of the patients.
