Department of Anaesthesia

Facilities

Medical Intensive Care Unit (Room No. 125) at First floor of main SMS hospital building, adjoining operation theatre area is equipped with modern ventilators, multiparameter monitors, ultrasonography, ABG machine and automatic external cardiac message machine (Autopulse). The ICU caters services to medical patients.

 Pain Clinic: Patients suffering from Acute and Chronic pain are referred in this Clinic for treatment. This Clinic is situated at Dhanwantri OPD block in Room no. 26 (First Fl.) daily between 8.00 AM to 2.00 PM, except holidays . In the pain clinic, facilities for various modalities of pain therapy viz., radio-frequency ablation, neurolytic block, TENS, Acupuncture, Acupulsor, Laser etc. are available. Image guided interventional pain management procedures are carried out in the dedicated operation theatre. 

The post anesthesia recovery room (PACU) is recovery rooms are situated in each respective operation theatres and equipped with multi-parameter monitors, anaesthesia machine and defibrillator machine for emergency requirement. 

Pre-Anaesthesia Check-up (PAC) Clinics are also situated in each respective operation theatres.  Patients scheduled for surgical/investigative procedures are screened in the respective PAC Clinic daily, a day prior to surgery.