This refers to the specialty pertaining to partial or complete loss of sensation with or without loss of consciousness by administration of a drug, usually by injection or inhalation so as to mitigate pain especially during surgical procedures.

"To alleviate pain and save life is praiseworthy" With growth and evolution, anesthesia is emerging as perioperative medicine. Deviating from its core - anesthesiology services, the field has extended into outpatient based Pre Anesthesia Clinic, Theatre Based Anesthesia Services, Post Operative Care Unit (PACU), managing high dependency unit like critical care (Ventilator support), and further extending our services into the integral Management of accident and emergency.

The role and scope of anesthesiologist has since been expanded to cover pain management in acute situations - "Acute Pain Services" and partial and complete pain relief in chronic cases - "Pain Clinic". Anesthesiologists are an indispensable part in Perinatology units for relieving labour pain.

With vast clinical exposure and relevant clinical research in anesthesia, critical care and A and E is made easy and simple. Learning new technology and keeping abreast of relevant data by all faculty is a remarkable but continuous process.