Department of Anaesthesiology

General Medicine

Department of Anaesthesiology

Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care medicine at K.S Hegde Medical Academy is committed in providing quality perioperative anaesthetic care to all surgical fields including super speciality, endoscopy, radiology suits, emergency services and providing critical care service in ICU round the clock. The Department runs 20 bedded multidisciplinary intensive care unit, a preoperative assessment clinic, post-operative care unit and pain clinic. The Department aims to set high standards in patient care and medical education with well equipped modern facilities such as state of the art anaesthesia work stations, monitoring devices, ultrasound and ventilators. The Department engages in teaching MBBS, MD Anaesthesiology courses, BDS, Nursing, as well as, runs BSc AOTT and MSc AOTT courses. The Department disseminates knowledge and skill by conducting various academic programmes like conferences, CME and workshops at national and local levels. With actively involving in human simulator and skill development lab, the Department regularly conducts CPR training for medical, paramedical personnel and the general public. The Department is a recognised training centre for difficult airway management and has hands-on- training programme in fiber-optic intubation.

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Faculty

Research Thrust Areas

The Department has a special interest in the field of difficult airway management, ultrasound guided nerve blocks and pain management. The Department has made large contribution in forming the difficult airway guidelines framed by the All India Difficult Airway Association.

Services

  • Anaesthesia for surgical fields like general surgery, orthopaedics, obstetrics and gynaecology, otorhinolaryngology, craniofacial surgery, paediatrics, plastic surgery, cardiothoracic, neurosurgery; outside the operation theatre complex like infertility centre, gastroenterology suite, in radiological procedures and ECT
  • Intensive care for the critically ill patient
  • Emergency services in emergency department (casualty)
  • Pre anaesthetic assessment
  • Post-operative care
  • Pain clinic
  • Social responsibility in time of management of disasters
  • First aid and CPR training for general public
Conference, CME, Workshop conducted by the department

Achievements

Conference, CME, Workshop conducted by the department

SL No Date Details
1. 25th & 26th March 2006 Hands on Workshop on Difficult Airway management, Dr Andreas C Gerber, Dr Ramesh S, Chief Anaesthesiologist, Kanchi Kamakoti Child's Trust Hospital, Chennai, Dr Ramkumar V, Prof & Head of Anaesthesiology, KMC Manipal, Pankaj Kundra, Prof of Anaesthesiology, JIPMER, Podichery, Dr Elsa Varghese, Prof of Anaesthesiology, KMC Manipal Dr Raveendra U S, Dr Yogaraj K S, and Dr Sripada G Mehandale delivered guest lectures and demonstrated various techniques. 100 delegates from South India Attended the programme
2. 3rd & 4th March 2007 3rd Symposium on Paediatric Anaesthesia. Andreas. C Gerber, Chief Anaesthesiologist, University Children’s Hospital, Zurich, Dr. Ramesh S, Chief Anaesthesiologist, Kanchi Kamakoti Childs Trust Hospital, Chennai, Dr Ramkumar V, Prof & Head of Anaesthesiology, KMC Manipal, Dr Elsa Varghese, Dr Dilip Pawar, Prof of Anaesthesiology, AIMS, New Delhi, Pankaj Kundra, Prof of Anaesthesiology, JIPMER, Podichery, Dr Bharathi Kulkarni, Mumbai, Dr Pradnya Sawant, B J Wadia Hospital Mumbai, Dr Prabhavathi, Hyderabad, Dr Sandeep Diwan, Miraj, Dr Vijaya Shenoy, Prof & Head of Paediatrics, KSHEMA, Dr Vrishali Ponde, Ahmadabad, Dr Viswanathan P N, Prof & Head of Anaesthesiology, MMC, Mysore, Dr Gurudatt, Prof of Anaesthesiology, MMC, Mysore, Dr Chandrasekhar, Sagar Apollo Hospital, Bangalore, Dr Raveendra U S and Dr Sripada G Mehandale delivered guest lectures and demonstrated various techniques. 100 delegates from South India Attended the programme
3. 30th & 31st January 2008 A two day training programme on ‘Basic Life Support, Trauma & Emergency’ for nursing staff
4. 8th & 9th of March 2008 A two day training programme on ‘Basic Life Support, Trauma & Emergency’ for nursing staff
5. April 3rd & 4th 2008 Hands-on Workshop on Peripheral Nerve Blocks with Live demonstration. Dr. Balavenkat, Coimbatore, an expert in nerve blocks was the resource person
6. 12th April 2008 Live demonstration of Ultrasound guided Nerve Blocks. Dr. Mohamed Bilal from Saudi Arabia was the resource person
7. 1st & 2nd July 2008 A two day training programme on ‘Basic Life Support, Trauma & Emergency’ for nursing staff
8. 18th September 2008 Hands-on workshop on ‘Difficult Airway Management’ as a part of SZ-ISACON
9. 9th October 2008 Workshop on ‘Emergency Toxicology Life Support’ with faculty from AIIMS and University of South Florida
10. 13th to 14th February 2009 A two day training programme on ‘Basic Life Support, Trauma & Emergency’ for nursing staff
11. 31st March 2009 A one day Training programme for Interns, CMO’S & Residents on Emergencies & ACLS was conducted at Seminar Hall, Justice K.S.Hegde Charitable Hospital on 31st March 2009
12. 18th April 2010 One day CME on ‘Shock’ was conducted by the Department of Anaesthesiology & Critical Care. The event was inaugurated by Prof (Dr) M Shantharam Shetty, Vice Chancellor. Programme was attended by more than 100 delegates
13. 20th & 21st November 2010 First National Difficult Airway Conference (NDACON 2010) and KSHEMA Anaesthesia update at the medical sciences complex, KSHEMA. This was the 4th national level programme organized by the department
14. 26th to 28th August 2011 Difficult Airway Workshop 9th Congress of SAARC Association of Anaesthesiologists Pre-conference workshop on ‘Difficult Airway Management’ held at Victoria Hospital, Bengaluru
15. 5th October 2011 On behalf of A.B. Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences and the Department of Pedodontics our sincere thanks to you for accepting our invitation for the workshop and making it a grand success. The programme titled “Emergencies in Dental Practice” at A.B. Shetty Institute of Dental Sciences, Deralakatte, Mangalore. The workshop was very well perceived and appreciated by the post graduate students as well as the staff from our institution. We are looking forward for such practical and informative lectures in our future endeavours
16. 9th and 10th March 2013 Two days workshop on ‘Ultrasonography and Echo Cardiography in Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine’ . The resource persons included, Dr Muralidhar K, Chief Cardiac Anaesthesiologists, Narayana Hridayalaya, Bangalore, Dr Ramesh S, Chief Paediatric Anaesthesiologist, Kanchi Kamakoti Childs Trust Hospital, Chennai, Dr Vrushali Ponde, Senior Consultant Anaesthesiologist, Mumbai, Dr Suresh, Consultant Anaesthesiologist, SDUMC, Kolar, Dr Priya Menon, Chief Intensivist, K S Hegde Hospital, Dr Subramanyam K, Chief Interventional Cardiologist, KSHEMA, Dr Vidya, Assistant Professor of Radiology, KSHEMA
17. 19th July 2014 Organized a CME / Symposium, “FREEZE FRAME: BLOCK and VEIN “ CME and workshop
18. 18th & 19th July, 2015 Organized a state level two days post graduate exam preparation course (PGEXCEL) under the aegis of Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists Karnataka State Branch
19. 24th July 2015 Dr Mogera Chandra, Consultant Anaesthetist & Clinical Director, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, London visited the department of Anaesthesiology. He conducted hands-on demonstration of Ultrasound guided regional blocks for upper limb surgeries
20. 9th & 10th July 2016 2 day State level CME programme on paediatric anaesthesia “KSHEMA PACE – 2016” at K S Hegde Medical Academy, Deralakatte, Managaluru. Total 100 delegates from all over the state participated in the event and enriched their knowledge. 14 faculty members of national level experienced in the field of paediatric anaesthesia have delivered the lectures
21. 30th July 2017 CME on neuroanaesthesia- “Neuro Update 2017” at K S Hegde Medical Academy, Deralakatte, Managaluru. Dr Stanlies D’Souza, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesiology and Division Chief of Neuroanaesthesiology in University of Massachusetts Medical School Springfield, USA was the main person
22. 30th July 2017 Live demonstration on application of ultra sound for airway assessment, focused assessment with sonography in trauma (FAST), transthoracic echocardiography in emergency room on Dr Umesh G, Professor of Anaesthesiology, DIMHANS, Dharwad was the resource person. More than 60 PGs and faculty of KSHEMA and other colleges participated
23. 24, 25th February 2018 ‘Comprehensive Exam Orientated Tutorial (CEOT-3)’ at the Seminar Hall of K S Hegde Hospital. It was organised by Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, K S Hegde Medical Academy of Nitte (Deemed to be University) under the agies of Indian Society of Anaesthesiology Karnataka State Branch
24. 13th January 2019 Conducted a Conference on Recent trends in Critical Care Medicine titled “KSHEMA CRITICARE 2019” at K S Hegde Hospital on Sunday
25. 6th to 8th September 2019 Hosted a National Airway Conference. More than 260 delegates are participated in this event.
Post held by the staff in different specialties organization :

Dr Sripada G Mehandale, Professor & HOD MBBS, MD, DA, PGDMEBE (PG Diploma in Medical Ethics Bioethics) :

  • Member of National Editorial Board of International Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (IJHRS)
  • Peer Reviewer for Indian Journal of Anaesthesiology (IJA), Journal of Clinical Diagnosis and Research (JCDR)
  • Faculty to American Heart Association (AHA) for Certificate Courses in BLS & ACLS
  • Former Honorary Secretary of Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists Karnataka State Branch
  • External Member of Board of Studies, Dept. of Anaesthesiology, Yenepoya Medical College, Yenepoya University
  • President of Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists (ISA), Mangalore City Branch
  • Coordinator, B.Sc Anaesthesia & Operation Theatre Technology
  • Coordinator, Resuscitation training cell, Nitte (Deemed to be University)

Professor (Dr) Ananda Bangera, MBBS, MD, DNB:

  • Associate Editor of Indian Journal of Clinical Anaesthesia
  • Editorial board member of Indian Journal of Anaesthesiology
  • Executive Committee member of All India Difficult Airway Association (AIDAA)
  • Central Executive Committee member of IMA South Kanara Branch
  • Organizing chairman for National Airway Conference 2019
  • Observer for credit hours Karnataka Medical council (MCI)
  • Life member of IMA, ISA, ISCCM, AORA, IAPA
  • Served as Professor & HOD
  • Served as Coordinator of B. Sc Anaesthesia and OT Technology
  • Served as Chairman of Board of studies of allied health sciences Nitte (Deemed to be University)
  • Served as President of Indian Society of Anaesthesiologist, chapter Mangalore branch
  • Served as: President of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM)-Mangalore
  • Served as Vice President of Indian Medical Association, South Kanara Branch
  • Served as Treasurer of Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists (ISA) Karnataka Branch
  • Served as Organizing secretary of 1st National conference of AIDAA
  • Served as Organizing chairman of PG EXCEL – State level PG conference
  • Served as external member of board of curium of department of Anaesthesioalogy Yenepoya Deemed to be University
  • Received “Best citizen of India” award by India Publishing House

Professor (Dr) Gayathri Bhat, MBBS, MD:

  • Coordinator, NU-MEDISIM
  • Past President of Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists (ISA), Mangalore City Branch.
  • Faculty to American Heart Association (AHA) for Certificate Courses in BLS & ACLS
  • Has completed Diploma in Palliative care course with focus on Geriatrics
  • Certificate course in Palliative Medicine through Indian Association of Palliative care, Kozhikode.

Professor (Dr) Sumalatha R Shetty, MBBS, DA, DNB:

  • Member of Green Brigade, Nitte
  • Zonal Coordinator for Asian Society of Paediatric Anaesthesia, 2016
  • Member of Medical Education Unit, KSHEMA
  • Member of General Brigade, Nitte
  • Member of Renal Transplant unit, KSHEMA
  • Member of Maternal Mortality Committee
  • External Member of Board of Studies, Dept. of Anaesthesiology, Yenepoya Medical College, Yenepoya
  • NSS Coordinator Nitte
  • National General Secretary of All India Difficult Airway Association
  • Member of Grievance committee, KSHEMA

Associate Professor (Dr) Nikhil M P: MD, EDRA:

  • Served as a Secretary of Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists (ISA), Mangalore City Branch

Associate Professor (Dr) Murali Shankar Bhat: MBBS, MD:

  • Served as a Treasurer of Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists (ISA), Mangalore City Branch.

Associate Professor (Dr) Govindraj Bhat: MBBS, MD

  • Treasurer of All India Difficult Airway Association