Hospital

Anesthesia Department

Services

Services offered by the department are conducted to all patients especially those with chronic hepatic and renal diseases undergoing either surgical or endoscopic interventions for either diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.

· Preoperative assessment

The anesthesia clinic offers preoperative assessment and evaluation of medical problems, optimization of the patient’s general condition for a safe surgical intervention and minimum hospital stays.

· Intra-operative management

The offered services include:

1.  Modern anesthetic techniques and anesthetic agents (inhalational [e.g. VIMA], intravenous or continuous intravenous infusion [e.g. TIVA], including muscle relaxants and narcotics.
2.  Recent drugs and techniques used in peripheral nerve blockade, central nerve blockade, acupuncture anesthesia, and analgesia in special surgical techniques.
3.  Adjusting anesthesia for liver resection and liver transplant.
4.  Adjusting Anaesthesia for laparoscopic surgery either urological or general surgery.
5.  Use of recent anaesthetic drugs and monitoring to control the depth of anesthesia to improve patients’ outcomes.
6.  Intraoperative fluid optimization in major abdominal surgery using advanced monitoring (Trans-esophageal Doppler, Masimo, and Picco).
7.  Remote location anesthesia including:

Gastrointestinal endoscopy (ERCP- upper and colonoscopy)

Interventional radiology techniques

· Postoperative management

The offered services include:

1.  Well-equipped postoperative care unit (PACU) for receiving the patients after surgery, optimizing their general condition, allowing full recovery and safe transfer.
2.  Studying different analgesic drugs and adjuvants (dexamethasone, gabtine, etc…) to improve patients, outcomes and decrease postoperative analgesic requirements.
3.  Studying different agents that could minimize postoperative complications (e.g., nausea and vomiting, etc…).
4.  Studying different narcotics with different doses to reach optimum and safe recovery with minimal side effects.
5.  Studying various extradural drug combinations (local anesthetics, narcotics, adjuvants) for postoperative pain relief after major surgeries.
6.  The department also cooperates with other institute departments on either human or animal studies to evaluate different anesthetic agents/ techniques as well as their effects on different body organs and systems.