Anesthesia

The department of Anesthesia at NMCH & RC

The department of Anaesthesiology is the practice of medicine dedicated to the total care of the patient before, during and after surgery. It encompasses anesthesia, intensive care medicine, critical emergency medicine, and pain medicine.

The department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care at Navodaya Medical College is integral part of the hospital and research centre. The department has 12 operation theaters in sushrutha complex and one O.T at casualty side attached to 12 bedded ICU 12 sophisticated major and minor operation theater in sushrutha complex are in three floors : Each floor consist 4 operation theaters and the theaters are distributed to cater all the requirements of allied surgical departments.

Deviating from its core – anesthesiology services, the field has extended into Theatre Based Anesthesia Services, Post-Operative Care Unit (PACU), managing high dependency unit like critical care (Ventilator support), and further extending our services into the integral Management of accident and emergency.

The department is involved in evaluating patients for Anaesthetic fitness, maintenance of the sophisticated operation theater complex, and management of patients in critical care units, apart from academics. The faculties are involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching of Anesthetic, intensive care, preoperative medicine (including acute pain management), chronic pain management, resuscitation, safety and quality in healthcare and related medico legal issues etc

A state of art Critical Care Unit, with advances like

Microprocessor-controlled ventilators,
Invasive and non-invasive haemodynamic monitoring systems,
Respiratory gas monitoring systems, blood gas analyzer and central monitoring.
Flexible fibreoptic laryngoscopy is being routinely performed for all cases of difficult intubation.

Research Activities

Anesthesia for Cardiac patients for non-cardiac surgery by prof & HOD, Dr. D.S Ramchandra.
Anesthetic management for road traffic accidents and Poly trauma management.

PG Research

“A comparative study of efficacy and duration of post-operative analgesia with intrathecal clonidine versus intrathecal tramadol in 0.5% hyperbaric bupivacaine for lower abdominal surgeries.” By Dr. Aruna G.P
“A comparative study of intrathecal hyperbaric ropivacaine versus hyperbaric bupivacaine for lower abdominal surgeries.” By Dr. Swathi. B
“Attenuation of haemodynamic changes during laryngoscopy and endotracheal intubation using I.V bolus plain lidocaine versus I.V clonidine.” By Dr. Irfan Waris