In present scenario availability of safe and quality anesthesia services makes the experience of surgery a pleasant one for any patient. Anesthesia services are an integral part of any super speciality hospital.
Anesthesia services are provided to you in case you have to undergo surgery and interventional procedure. Any patient undergoing surgery can be given Anesthesia in any one of the following ways:
- General Anaesthesia (patient is asleep during the procedure and does not respond to any stimuli, including pain)
- Regional Anaesthesia (a part of body where the surgery is to be performed is made numb, especially useful in limb surgeries and caesarean sections)
- Monitored Anaesthesia Care/ Procedural Sedation (this is used for procedures like Endoscopy, ERCP, Colonoscopy etc. where general anesthesia is not required or may not be possible and an anesthetist is present to monitor and ensure maximum comfort possible)
Death associated with anaesthetic procedures is rare, 1-4 deaths per 10,000 anaesthesias. However, each case gives rise to discussion about causality and who is to blame. Prospective studies are few, and comparison between them is difficult because of the use of different definitions of anaesthesia related death. A critically ill patient with impaired function of multiple organs seems to be at a higher risk of anaesthesia related death than a more healthy patient. However, no study has so far identified preoperative risk factors of anaesthesia related death.
Death associated with anaesthetic procedures is rare, 1-4 deaths per 10,000 anaesthesias. However, each case gives rise to discussion about causality and who is to blame. Prospective studies are few, and comparison between them is difficult because of the use of different definitions of anaesthesia related death. A critically ill patient with impaired function of multiple organs seems to be at a higher risk of anaesthesia related death than a more healthy patient. However, no study has so far identified preoperative risk factors of anaesthesia related death.
