Anaesthesia & Critical Care
Department of Anaesthesia at Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences provides perioperative anaesthesia care for surgical and interventional procedures in the setting of operation theatres as well as outside for day care endoscopy and radiological procedures. The department also is actively involved in postoperative care of high-risk surgical patients admitted to surgical and transplant intensive care units and also provides round the clock acute pain services for management of postoperative pain for patients discharged to surgical wards after their surgery. The department of Anaesthesia besides the clinical services is also engaged in research activities and has an active teaching program under which students are enrolled to post-doctoral courses including 'NMC' recognised DM and PDCC in Organ transplant anaesthesia and critical care. The department takes pride in its alumni all of which have been occupying positions of well repute all over the world.
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Services Rendered by the Department: From January'25 to December'25
| Services | 2024 | 2025 |
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| Transplant ICU | 156 | 190 |
| Surgical ICU | 555 | 570 |
| Liver transplant | 125 | 172 |
| Day Care Procedures | 16699 | 17765 |
| LCICU | 1167 | 1231 |
| HDU | 622 | 681 |
| Total Surgeries | 1170 | 1242 |
| Kidney Transplant | 30 | 31 |
New services & facilities added to the department in 2025:
- 1. Basic and advanced TEE training in liver transplant recipients
- 2. Purchased a new TEE machine.
- 3. Purchased new advanced Anaesthesia workstation for the Operating theater.
- 4. Perioperative Transthoracic Echocardiography
- 5. Lung ultrasound
- 6. Percutaneous tracheostomy
- 7. Ultrasound guided Abdominal and Thoracic wall blocks
- 8. Rotational thromboelastometry for liver transplant recipients
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Educational Activities
- a. Started Transplant Anaesthesia Technician Certificate course from Nov 2025.
- b. Started Anaesthesia technitians teaching programme
- c. Seminars, journal club and case presentations by both DM and PDCC residents
- d. Lectures by Faculty of Anaesthesia and Critical care department
- e. A Departmental workshop on Airway ultrasound
- f. ACLS training sessions for nursing staff
- g. Workshop by faculty members on Transcranial doppler, Optic nerve sheath diameter, lung ultrasound at Criticare CSPLD 2024
Courses offered by the Department
| Course | Candidates admitted | Candidates passed |
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| DM Organ Transplant Anaesthesia and Critical Care | Dr. Rashmi, Dr. Ankush, Dr. Sai Kishore |
Dr. Suraj Desai, Dr. Abhinav |
| PDCC Liver transplant | Dr. Shreem, Dr. Savita, Dr. Jasmine, Dr. Abhishiek, Dr. Pragya, Dr. Suraj |
Dr. Lakshya, Dr. Kiran, Dr. Ishan |
Departmental achievements
- 1. Dr. Suraj Desai - First prize - Oral Paper - CCILBS 2025
Paper title: Diaphragmatic dysfunction and post- operative pulmonary outcomes in Living donor liver transplant recipients: A prospective randomized controlled study. - 2. Dr. Abhinav Sharma - Second Prize- Oral Paper- CCILBS 2025
Paper title: A comparative evaluation of Isoflurane and Propofol on intra-operative requirement of vasopressors during living donor liver transplantation: A RCT - 3. Dr. Rachana C Nair -
- a) First prize 'Oral Paper'- AORA NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2025, Amritsar.
Paper title: External oblique intercoastal plane block versus epidural analgesia for Live donor liver open hepatectomy: A randomized controlled trial. - b) First prize - 'Presedential e poster'- LTSICON 2025, Delhi.
Paper title: External oblique intercoastal plane block versus epidural analgesia for Live donor liver open hepatectomy: A randomized controlled trial. - c) Third prize - Oral Paper - CCILBS 2025.
Paper title: Thromboelastography versus rotational thromboelastometry guided blood transfusion in Living donor liver transplant recipients: A randomized controlled trial. - d) Poster of Excellence at 3rd ILBS research day
Paper title: Liver graft weight impact on postreperfusion syndrome during LDLT
- a) First prize 'Oral Paper'- AORA NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2025, Amritsar.
- 4. Dr. Aviral Shrivastava - First prize - 'Oral abstracts'- LTSICON 2025, Delhi.
Paper title: Comparison of neuromonitoring devices in predicting raised intracranial pressure and outcome in Acute liver failure patients.
Faculty
- Dr. Deepak K Tempe, Professor Emeritus
- Dr. Mahesh Kumar Arora, Visiting Professor
- Dr. Gaurav Sindwani, Associate Professor
- Dr. Prashant Mohan Agarwal, Associate Professor
- Dr. Udit Dhingra, Associate Professor
- Dr Anil Yogendra Yadav, Assistant Professor
- Dr. Priyanka Chuttani, Assistant Professor
- Dr. Sonam Satija, Assistant Professor
