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Welcome to the Unit of Anesthesiology at Dr. B.R.A.
Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital (IRCH), All India Institute
of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)! Our resolve is to deliver the
highest quality of clinical care to our patients from the
pre-anesthetic workup of the surgically resectable disease
to the palliative management of the terminally ill cancer
patients. During this clinical journey of the patient, our
team provides continuum of clinical and pain management in
the peri-operative period, in the critically ill settings,
during the transition from curative management to pain and
palliative care and end-of-life care in the terminally ill
stages.
Our faculties are committed to achieving excellence in
clinical care and education, and they hold deep academic
values. We continue to draw the brightest and most talented
senior residents who, after completing their post-graduation
(Doctor of Medicine, i.e., M.D.) in anesthesiology from
various reputed institutes in India, have shown dedicated
interests in onco-anesthesiology, critical care, pain
management and palliative care. Our long-term goal in
education and clinical experience is to train senior
residents to become future leaders in onco-anesthesiology,
critical care, pain management and palliative care.
Our unit conducts research in the fields of Cancer Pain,
Palliative Care and Perioperative Medicine. Our faculty and
senior residents engage in multidisciplinary projects with
Intervention Radiology, Surgical Oncology, Radiation
Oncology and Medical Oncology while taking full academic
advantage of the rich resources of AIIMS. Critical
Observation and Learning are translated into innovation
throughout the department.
Our team
comprise of two faculties, one senior research associate and
12 senior residents. All of them are professionally
qualified anesthesiologists and critical care physicians and
have gained experience as palliative care personnel in the
advanced cancer patients referred for pain and other
symptoms. We have been managing them as outpatients for last
nine years with the inpatient facility being a recent
addition since January 2007. The free service of home care
team of
CANSUPPORT has been a collaborative force since the time
of our outpatient palliative care. The hospice referrals are
being sent to
SHANTI AVEDNA SADAN for free service of hospice care.
Besides our six-bedded independent inpatient facility, we
also take care of outpatients in four-days-a-week OPD,
interventional operation theatres two-days-a-week, daily
emergent follow-up of OPD patients, daily elective or
emergent bedside palliative interventions, 24-hours on-call
facility for oncology ward inpatients and 24-hours
telephonic guidance for emergent palliative needs of our
patients. The inpatient facility has been a recent addition
to our palliative care delivery system. Our team has
utilized this opportunity of caring the incurable patients
on inpatient basis by aggressively intervening the difficult
pains and complex symptoms at the end-of-life.
Please take a moment to get to know us better by browsing
through our web pages
(Last Updated on April 30th, 2008):
http://www.aiims.edu/aiims/departments/spcenter/IRCH/Anaesthesia/IntroAnae.htm
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It
is All about Teamwork: This is Our Team of Dedicated Health-Care
Professionals caring for Anesthesiology, Pain and Palliative Care
and Critical Care Services in Cancer Patients.