Anesthesiology and Critical Care

Intensive care medicine, also known as ‘critical care medicine’ is a specialty concerned with the supervision of critically ill patients who are at-risk, or have established possibly life threatening failure of any of the body organ systems. It is a specialty concerning with the holistic care of all features of critically ill patients.  This comprises of diagnosis, monitoring, treatment and organ support for acute illness, patient safety, end of life care, ethics and the support of families. While other departments have a predefined role of dealing a single organ, in intensive care medicine, the whole spectrum of medical and surgical pathologies are managed. It is a lifesaving and energetic branch with the responsibility of handling the sickest of patients in the hospital. An intensivist is able to offer progressive organ support during critical illness and co-ordinates with other departments for the care of ICU patient. Critical care medicine is a vital part of healthcare syst...

  Anesthesiology is a vital division of medicine as it makes surgery safe and possible. Expertise like airway management and resuscitation that form a simple part of anesthesiology training are life-saving processes and are indispensable in any surgical method. Before administering anesthesia, an  anesthesiologist  sees the patient to investigate about his/her medical history, reaction to certain drugs, standard of living such as smoking, alcohol consumption, use of hallucinogenic drugs and medical history of close family members. Such info helps the anesthesiologist in arranging the correct dosage of anesthesia and determining the precautions to be taken before, during and after surgery. Administration of an anesthetic effects numerous changes to the physiology of the patient and this comprises instability in their vital parameters. This implies that these parameters must be constantly supervised which is what an anesthesiologist does. Anesthesia can also cause a var...

  General anesthesia allows the patient to bear the surgical procedures that would otherwise cause unbearable pain and potentiate extreme physiologic exacerbations. General anesthesia decreases intraoperative patient consciousness and recall, it lets the proper muscle relaxation for the lengthy periods of time. It enables complete control of the airway, the breathing, and the circulation; it can be used in cases of sensitivity to the local anesthetic agent and can also be administered without affecting the patient from the supine position. General anesthesia can be adapted effortlessly to events of unpredictable period or extent, it can be administered quickly and it is reversible, the patient is not overly stressed during the procedure, it lets complete stillness over lengthy periods of time, and it licenses the surgery in broadly separated areas of the body at the same time.

  Anesthesia is an important part of surgery. It allows patients to go through an operation carefully without feeling distress and pain. Anesthetists assess patients before an operation to determine appropriate anesthetic plans. Anesthetist is required to get patients’ medical history, conduct interviews with them and order essential blood for transfusion. An anesthetic plan will consider the nature and period of the operation, patients’ health situations and other technical support factors. Patients are obligatory to fast for about six hours before surgery. Throughout surgery, the anesthetist carries on administering anesthetic drugs or gases to the patient to keep him or her unconscious throughout the operation. An anesthetist also monitors the patient’s heartbeat, blood pressure, blood glucose level and oxygen level throughout the operation, and should be always alert to any unpredicted and life-threatening development such as blood loss and allergic reaction happening durin...