from Chairpersons desk

On behalf of Department of Anaesthesiology, Pain & Perioperative Medicine Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, I welcome you all. Our department aims for enhancing quality of patient care not only in operation theatres and surgical intensive care unit but also beyond the puristic anaesthesia domain including preoperative patient status optimisation and comprehensive patient follow up after early postoperative recovery. Through our well-planned and extensive annual departmental audit that exposes few major and several subtle concerns, we periodically formulate new protocols and guidelines for proactive and continual improvement in clinical functioning. Thus, we want to clearly define, embrace and propagate the role of anaesthesiologists as 'perioperative physicians.'

The Department of Anaesthesiology, Pain and Perioperative Medicine and Pain Relief Clinic at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital is engaged in clinical anaesthesia, anaesthesia research and education of anaesthesia residents and paramedical staff.

The department has a strength of over 30 consultants Several consultants of our department have had special training in various subspecialties of anaesthesiology, eg: neuroanaesthesiology, anaesthesia for paediatric, organ transplant and minimally invasive surgery.

An average of 90 operations are carried out daily in the 20 operation theatres, including emergencies. 

The department provides anaesthetic services for all major specialties. The operation theatres are well equipped with modern anaesthetic machines with adequate safety devices. All theatres have state of the art patient monitoring systems.

Anaesthesiology in Super-specialty Surgical Services

• Thoracic and vascular surgery

• Gastrointestinal surgery

• Laparoscopic surgery

• Neurosurgery

• Plastic surgery and joint replacement

• Organ transplantation (liver, kidney) 

Anaesthesia services outside the operation theatre are provided for various procedures in : gastroenterology for endoscopy, ophthalmology for laser treatment, in vitro fertilization for oocyte retrieval, radiology for angiography and intravenous pyelography, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), the cath lab for cerebral angiography and coiling of aneurysms and dental treatment in the day care setting.

The modern, updated 6-bedded SICU and 4 bedded liver transplant ICU boasts of up-to-date monitoring equipment and ventilators which provide a strong back-up for the surgical and medical units.