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As the Head of Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Palliative Medicine, I am pleased to welcome you to our dedicated section on hospital website

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Contact Details
Anesthesia OfficeOpposite Ward 10
1st Floor SMHS Hospital Follow us on : https://x.com/AnesthesiaGMCSr

SERVICES OFFERED

  • We provide Anaesthesia services to all the surgical and allied departments of GMC Srinagar and its associated hospitals.
  • We provide Procedural sedation services in various NORA
  • We run Critical Care units in SMHS, SSH, BNJ, CD and LD
  • We run Anaesthesia OPD services in SMHS, SSH, LDH, BNJ and Pediatric
  • We run Pain and Palliative services in SMHS hospital, both OPD and Day care.

    ACADEMIC AND TRAINING

    • MD Anaesthesia – 35 postgraduates per year
    • DrNB Critical Care Medicine – 2 students per year
    • FNB Trauma and Critical Care – 3 students/year
    • FNB Pediatric Anaesthesia – 4 students/year
    • Undergraduate training of MBBS course as per the new CBME curriculum, 180 students/year
    • BSc Anaesthesia course – 8 students per batch
    • Diploma Anaesthesia course – 21 students per batch
    • Pain and palliative care medicine is a recognised regional centre for Kashmir-Cancer training centre AIIMS (CTC3) by Indian Association of Palliative Care.
    • ICMR funded project on – Transcranial Doppler based autoregulation studies for personalised cerebral perfusion pressure sought in TBI : Relation with biomarkers and clinical outcome

      NEWER PROCEDURES INDUCTED

      1. USG guided regional blocks which are now routinely performed for analgesia and chronic and cancer pain management.
      2. Scalp block for awake
      3. Awake fiberoptic oral intubation in cervical
      4. Awake fiberoptic nasal intubation in TM joint
      5. Fiberoptic & USG aided percutaneous tracheostomies in
      6. Anaesthesia for bariatric
      7. Anaesthesia for laser
      8. Use of thoracic segmental spinals in patients having high risk under general
      9. USG guided neuraxial blocks in obese and difficult
      10. High end neonatal surgeries like TEF, CDH

      HIGH END EQUIPMENT

      • Department of Anaesthesia and critical care is in possession of latest high-end anaesthesia workstations and ICU ventilators.
      • We have two fibro-optic bronchoscopes, video laryngoscopes in almost all OT’s, USG machines in all hospitals, transport ventilators in every facility, portable X-ray plants available in SMHS, SSH and LDH ICUs, defibrillators in all ICUs and OT’s.
      • We also have three Critical Care ambulances, one in SMHS, one in LD and one in SSH which are fully equipped.