At Villoo Poonawalla Memorial Hospital, our Anesthesiology Department plays a crucial role in delivering safe and pain-free medical care. Our skilled team of anesthesiologists ensures every patient undergoing surgery or medical procedure receives individualized anesthesia care, from pre-operative evaluation to post-operative recovery.
Whether it’s a minor procedure or complex surgery, we’re committed to patient safety, comfort, and compassionate care.
The Department of Anaesthesiology is pivotal in delivering comprehensive anaesthesia services across a wide range of surgical, medical and diagnostic specialities.
Any patient undergoing surgery can be given anaesthesia in any one of the following ways:
The patient is asleep during the procedure and does not respond to any stimuli, including pain.
The patient is either awake or sedated and a part of the body where the surgery is to be performed is made numb, especially useful in limb surgeries and caesarean sections.
Currently, the department supports basic surgical specialities like General Surgery, Onco (Cancer) surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, ENT, Orthopaedics, arthroscopy, Urology, Ophthalmology, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, and trauma.
The anaesthesia speciality has rapidly diversified, encompassing a broad range of sub-disciplines that cater to specific patient needs and medical conditions.
The anaesthesia team is thoroughly trained and experienced in handling all types of complex surgeries and procedures such as:
Securing and managing the airway during surgeries for compromised airways, Tracheoplasties (repair of trachea), vocal cord tumours, voice surgeries and congenitally malformed airways using LASER.
Specialized care for patients undergoing Liver, Kidney and Pancreas transplants in both living and cadaveric donors.
Specialized care for patients undergoing heart surgery (Coronary bypass, valve replacement or heart disease in children) and lung surgeries.
Focused on patients undergoing brain surgeries and for epilepsy.
For Weight reduction & metabolic disorders (like Diabetes).
Ensuring the safety and comfort of high-risk pregnant patients for childbirth, caesarean section, and painless labour epidural analgesia
Specialized care for children undergoing paediatric laparoscopic surgeries, neonatal surgeries, and correction of congenital defects.
Specialist care for patients with degenerative spine conditions, such as stenosis and herniated disc, traumatic injuries and Kyphoscoliosis correction.
Cosmetic, traumatic, cancer reconstructive &brachial plexus repair
In addition to these established specialities, the field of anaesthesiology continues to evolve with emerging areas of focus such as:
Prostate, urinary bladder, General surgery and Joint replacements.
We deliver anaesthesia not only for common endoscopic procedures like gastroscopy, banding, colonoscopy, ERCP and enteroscopy but also for advanced third space endoscopy surgeries like POEM, STER, ESD and EUS to treat conditions(achalasia) and remove lesions(tumour) in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.
Complex lung and respiratory tract surgeries using bronchoscope like endoscopic ultrasound-guided biopsy, tumour removal and lavage.