Dr. Chandrashekharan Cham Chief Consultant Anaesthesiologist & Interventional Pain Physician, Kingsway Hospital, Nagpur Any technique that uses a Fresh gas flow that is less than the alveolar ventilation can be stated to as low-flow anaesthesia. (1) It is an inhalation…
Dr. Soma ChamAssociate Professor, AnaesthesiologyTrauma Care Centre, GMC, NagpurHon. Secretary, ISA Nagpur Introduction: Spinal cord injury is the most common devastating and disabling injury after head injury. The anaesthesiologist plays a crucial role in resuscitation, intensive care and in rehabilitative…
Dr. Manisha ShembekarAnaesthesiologist, NagpurPresident, ISA Nagpur. Introduction Anaphylaxis is defined as severe, potentially life threatening hypersensitivity reaction. Incidence of perioperative anaphylaxis is 1 in 10,000-20,000 procedures, overall mortality is 0.001%. the exact causative agent is difficult to ascertain in the…
Dr. Vrishali Ankalwar, Associate Professor, Dept. of Anesthesiology, GMCH, Nagpur Background: Of all treatments in contemporary psychiatry, perhaps none is more commonly misunderstood than electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Its depiction in movies such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest has contributed to its controversial…
Dr. Ketaki Marodkar Assistant Professor,Department of Anaesthesiology,NKPSIMS, Nagpur Introduced in 1941 and 1943, the Miller’s straight blade and Macintosh’s curved blade laryngoscopes respectively have been widely used for direct laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation. Although they have a good success rate…
Dr. Deepak Ruparel Assistant Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology, GMC, Nagpur Perioperative visual loss after anaesthesia is rare but devastating complication that appears particularly after spine, cardiac and orthopaedic surgery. This review will discuss about incidence, suspected risk factors, diagnoses and…
Dr. Amrusha Choukasey Assistant Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology, GMC, Nagpur Only recently have medical professionals focused on the human fetus as a patient, able to undergo surgery or medical intervention. This development has been primarily driven by systematic improvements in…
Abstract Background & Objectives: Spinal anaesthesia reduces the incidence of morbidity that follows general anaesthesia in children with good efficacy and safety record. Racemic bupivacaine is the widely used local anaesthetic for paediatric spinal anaesthesia. Local anaesthetic levobupivacaine has an…
Dear Friends; Resuscitation using life saving methods is a mainstay in emergency situations. We, the health care providers should be well verse and thoroughly updated with resuscitation guidelines and techniques. The developed nations like American, Australian and European countries have…
The practice of anesthesiology includes provision of care to patients who are critically ill; while critical care medicine has its foundations in perioperative care provided by anesthesiologists, today’s critical care medicine encompasses care beyond traditional intraoperative and routine postoperative care.…