The Department of Anesthesiology provides state of the art care for patients undergoing varied types of surgical procedures. Because the discipline has become so subspecialized, faculties are available in areas such as cardiac anesthesia, neuroanesthesia, organ transplantation, pain management and palliative care. Department of Anesthesia provides perioperative service at 20 operating rooms for over 8500 patients per year for routine and emergency surgery.
In the 20 bedded postoperative and intensive care units, a team of specialist and nurses provide state-of-the-art life supporting treatments for all postoperative as well as critically ill patients. Emergency service of the department cater to referral services of the entire institute related to maintenance of invasive lines and monitoring, respiratory care and ventilatory care. Anesthesia department also facilitate procedure at peripheral areas like intervention radiology, intervention cardiac cath lab, intervention endoscopic procedure etc. A preanaesthesia checkup clinic in the department assist in the assessment of competence of patient undergo anesthesia.