Department of Anesthesia

An Anaesthesiologist is a perioperative physician, who assures the smooth sailing of the patient right from the preoperative period into the intra operative period and a smooth pain free recovery post operatively. The Department provides holistic preoperative services, a varied range of evidence based anaesthesia services in the OPERATION ROOM as well as outside the OPERATION ROOM , and comprehensive post-operative care. The Department also provides Critical Care Services for the perioperative period. The department of Anaesthesiology at KMSK GMC Chandrapur was formed in 2015. Currently we are a department consisting of 5 faculty members, 1 senior residents and 12 junior resident. The department has been instrumental in setting up the Covid wards, Covid ICU, Liquid Medical Oxygen tanks, the medical gas pipeline system and the PSA plant, There will be11 modular OTs and a 24 bedded Surgical ICU in the at New campus of KMSK GMC Chandrapur.

Currently, the department has the following facilities. Pre anaesthesia check-up OPD: For optimizing and preparing the patient for any surgery/procedure. OT: The department is running 8 OTs at present, catering to different elective and emergency procedures in General surgery, Orthopaedics, Obstetrics and gynaecology, ENT and ophthalmology and super specialties such as Paediatric surgery, Plastic surgery, Surgical gastroenterology, Urology, neurosurgery, trauma surgery and surgical oncology. Non-operating room anaesthesia: Currently non-operating room anaesthesia services are being provided for CT, ECT (electroconvulsive therapy). Emergency services round the clock. Postoperative acute pain services. LMO, PSA plants & the Medical gas pipeline system.