Anaesthesiology & Critical Care

Anaesthesiology, anaesthesia or anaesthetics is the medical speciality concerned with the total perioperative care of patients before, during and after surgery. It encompasses anaesthesia, intensive care medicine, critical emergency medicine, and pain medicine. A physician specialised in this field of medicine is called an anaesthesiologist or anaesthetist, depending on the country. The Department of Anaesthesiology at Sacred Heart Hospital uses the most advanced safe and patient-focused techniques in the delivery of anaesthetic care. Our team of extremely skilled and well-experienced anaesthesiologists aims to provide optimum quality patient care not only in the operation theatres but also beyond it by optimizing pre-operative patient status and providing comprehensive patient care during the early post-operative period. The Department of Anaesthesiology at Sacred Heart Hospital has five Operating rooms and one Endoscopy Unit. We have a modular OT fitted with centralised anaesthesia gas delivery system, laminar flow and equipped with modern anaesthesia machines. The department caters to a large number of cases per month under anaesthesia that includes Neuro-surgery, Laparoscopic Surgery, Joint Replacement Surgery and Spine Surgery as well.

Critical care is medical care for people who have life-threatening injuries and illnesses. It usually takes place in an intensive care unit (ICU).

A team of specially-trained health care providers gives you 24-hour care. This includes using machines to constantly monitor your vital signs. It also usually involves giving you specialized treatments.

At Sacred Heart Hospital, critical care medicine is a super speciality department catering to seriously ill patients suffering from life threatening diseases, organ failures, those requiring life support systems and/ or intensive monitoring.

The unit with its trained manpower and state of the art modern equipment works round the clock to provide high quality medical care to all the critical patients.

The team consists of intensivists, consultants, physiotherapists, technicians and nurses with a commitment for quality patient care.