About Us
The Department of Anaesthesiology was established in the year 1988 in Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College, Kolar as part of the R L Jalappa Hospital and Research Centre.
Surgery and critical illness are events that are taxing and disturbing to the patients and the entire family. Even as one may have minimal interaction with an anaesthesiologist during surgery, his/her role is pivotal in providing a safe surgical environment. Anesthesiologists constantly strive behind the scenes to make sure that the patients get the best of care during these stressful situations and accelerate their recovery and return to normalcy.
The health care facilities available at RLJH are sophisticated and state of the art. The Operation Theatre complex of RLJH is equipped with 17 major, 2 minor operation theatres and caters to a comprehensive list of specialities that include General surgery , Obstetrics & Gynaecology, ENT, Orthopaedic and Ophthalmic surgeries and also for super speciality surgical branches such as Neurosurgery, Urology, Pediatric Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Facio-Maxillary Surgery, Joint Replacement Surgeries, Head Neck and General Oncosurgery.
The department also extends its services to the Adult Critical Care unit which comprises of a 36 bedded Intensive Care Unit, which includes 3 isolation cubicles. The unit is well equipped to handle critically ill patients of all specialties.
Our team of anesthesiologists provide a comprehensive and versatile range of services which includes providing anaesthesia, intensive care management, code blue team, labour analgesia, sedation for CT/MRI, transport of critically ill patients and pain management. This is possible only because of a team of highly motivated, skilled, dedicated and experienced team of doctors, nurses and paramedical staff. Hence, we have played a significant role in achieving the goal of RLJH, which is to provide quality tertiary healthcare to the rural population.
Together we work round the clock to provide make sure that we have left no stone unturned in providing the best of care for our patients.
Message from The Head of department
Dr. Suresh Kumar N
Professor & HOD
Anaesthesiologists are peri-operative physicians and their duty is not only to provide anesthesia inside the operating room, but actually help the surgical team in the process of decision making about the feasibility of operation depending upon the pre-existing medical problems of the patient and the nature of the operation that is planned. Anesthesiologist optimises the organ function before the operation, maintains the function during the surgical procedure and supports the organs as per requirement after the operation. Broad based knowledge and expertise of different medical specialities apart from anaesthesia, medicine and pain is required to effectively contribute for holistic management of the patient.
Critical care is an emerging super speciality for managing patients who are seriously ill and are in need of sophisticated life support system to salvage them from critical illness.In most intensive care units, anaesthesiologists not only manage patients in ICU but also get involved in ICU administration.
Anaesthesiologists are important members of resuscitation team, attending emergencies, including cardiac arrest and also training medical, paramedical staff and the public in basic and advanced life support (BLS & ACLS). The anaesthesiologists role is therefore not only vital inside the theatres but, outside the operation theatres as well.
Anaesthesiology team of RLJH are striving round the clock to ensure that quality anaesthetic services are provided to all the patients.