Anesthesiology provide pain relief and maintenance, or restoration, of a stable condition during and immediately following an operation, obstetric, or diagnostic procedure. It is the anesthesiologist’s foremost purpose and concern to protect the patient’s well-being and safety just prior to, during, and after surgery. Anesthesiologists have many responsibilities: preoperative evaluation of patients to determine conditions that may complicate surgery; management of pain and emotional stress during surgical, obstetrical, and medical procedures; provision of life support under the stress of anesthesia and surgery; immediate postoperative care of the patient; and knowledge of drugs and their interactions with anesthetic agents.
Anesthesiologists are involved in around 90 percent of the more than 40 million surgical procedures that are carried out under anesthetic each year in India.Before an operation, a patient will meet with the anesthesiologist for an evaluation. Anesthesiology Doctor will make a plan for the operation that takes into account the individual needs of the patient.On the day of the operation, the anesthesiologist supervises the administration of medication so that the patient will not experience pain.
During the procedure, the surgeon carries out the surgical work, but the Anesthesiology Doctor will continue to be responsible for the medical management of the patient.
They monitor the patient’s bodily functions, assess the best way to treat the vital organs, and provide a balance of medications suited to the individual’s needs.
The functions they need to monitor include:
- heart rate and rhythm
- breathing
- blood pressure
- body temperature
- fluid balance
Anesthesiology controls these vital measures and the patient’s level of pain and unconsciousness throughout the operation.