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Anaesthesiology Overview
The Department of Anesthesia in our Multispeciality Hospital provides 24-hour perioperative service, encompassing pre-anesthetic assessment, and intraoperative and postoperative care of diverse surgical patients.
We provide the best anesthesia service for procedures outside the operating theatre such as interventional pulmonology, artificial reproductive therapy, radiology, and obstetric analgesia.
The department has 6 operating rooms for General, Paediatric, Orthopaedic, Urology, Oncology, Obstetric, and Neurosurgery. The operating rooms in our Anesthesiology Hospital are equipped with an anesthesia workstation, advanced hemodynamic monitors, and ultrasound machines for vascular access and nerve blocks.
Our 5 senior Anaesthetist have done more than 6000 anesthesia cases per year and they are assisted by DNB trainees and Anaesthesia Technicians. We are one of the Best Anesthesiology Hospital in Coimbatore.
Academic Activities
PG Training in Modern Technology
- Fibre optic intubations
- C MAC laryngoscopy
- Modular Workstations
- Ultrasound Guided nerveblocks & Vascular Access
- Vein Viewers
Future Plans
- Electronic Medical records for OR
- To Start fellowship in Onco & Obstetric Anesthesia
- Automated OT scheduling
Career advancement/ Educational Oppurtunities
- DrNB Cardiac Anaesthesia { Accredited from NBE New Delhi } 2 seats per year
- DNB Anaesthesia 5 Seats per year
- IAPA Fellowship in Paediatric Anaesthesia 2 Seats per Year
Services
- General Anesthesia
- Cardiac Anesthesia
General Anesthesia
The Department of Anaesthesiology at GKNMH is 'the state of the art' department with all advanced facilities. The surgical advancements at GKNMH are a testimony to this, performing around 12,000 complex and advanced surgeries every year in 22 well equipped Operation theatres.
Organisational Chart
The GKNMH Anesthesia department has great work ethics with a proud team of 35 full time employed doctors & 12 qualified Anaesthesia Technicians headed by our Departmental Chairperson- Dr.B. Soundaravalli
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- Cardiac Anesthesia Consultants - 6
- Paediatric Anaesthesia Consultant-1
- Senior Consultants - 4
- Consultants - 2
- Junior Consultant - 2
- Paediatric Anesthesia Fellows - 2
- DNB Postgraduates - 15
- Anesthesia Technicians - 24 (General-14 & Cardiac - 10)
- Cardiac DrNB Trainees - 2
Services Offered
Anaesthesia Services Department is providing Anaesthesia to all cases including complex and critical cases with in- house anaesthesiologists 24/7 365 days. There are Four operation theatre complexes with total 22 State of art operation theatres rooms.
General OT
OT complex of first floor has 8 OTs for General Surgery, Onco Surgery, Paediatric Surgery, Transplants, ENT, Ophthalmic, G.I Surgery, Urology, Gynae & Obst., Vascular, Robotic, Laparoscopic Surgery, and orthopaedics.
There is a separate OT in labour Ward for Obstetric emergency procedures.
1 OT Exclusively for Robotic Surgery
Cardiac OT
Cardiac OT Complex at second floor has total four operation theatres which comprises three OTs for Adult cardiac surgery and one for pediatric cardiac procedures. We are one of the most premium and first cardiac surgery unit in Coimbatore performing complex cardiac surgeries including Cardiac transplants.
NORA
The Non-operating room Anaesthesia services at GKNMH is one of the most premium in the country with 1 Bronchoscopy suite, 1 Endoscopy suite, 1 Neuro interventional Suite, 3 Cardiac interventional Suites, 1 Brachy therapy suite, 1 MRI Suite & 1 CT Suite.
Day Care Surgery
Two new OTs are exclusively dedicated for day care surgeries in the New OP block.
Pain Management
Department has a thriving practice of USG guided 'regional anaesthesia' by peripheral nerve block in serious cases where General Anaesthesia or spinal anaesthesia are contraindicated & post operative pain relief.
Advanced Epidural Labour analgesia services for painless labour & delivery is being routinely offered by our department.
Dedicated Anaesthesiologists specialised in pain medicine available for acute and chronic pain management.
Transplant Services
Apart from Cardiac & Renal In-house transplant surgeries, transfer of harvested organ to recipients' hospitals is being facilitated by the anaesthesia department. Liver, kidney, lung, heart and cornea are the organs being retrieved from brain dead donors with adequate legal formalities adhered to.
Ancillary Services
OT complex is also having pre-operative Assessment room, preop Holding Area with 6 Beds and Dedicated post operative ICU Ward with 18 Beds. All areas are looked after by in house Anaesthesiologists. Anaesthesiologists are also managing Surgical and Cardiac ICU Cases.
Infrastructure
Anaesthesiologist
Anaesthesiologist
Anaesthesiologist
Team of Doctors
Dr. M. Chandraleka
MD (Anaes), Fellow in advanced regional and Trauma Anaesthesia, Fellow in trauma critical care
Consultant - Anesthesia
Dr. Ashwini. M. Shah
MBBS, DNB (Anes), FIPM(Fellowship in interventional Pain Management)
Consultant in Anaesthesia & Interventional Pain Management
Dr. Kaushik Jothinath
MBBS, DNB, FIACTA, FTEE
Consultant Paediatric Cardiac Anaesthesiologist & Intensivist
