Institute of
Anesthesia & Pain Management
Institute of Anesthesia & Pain Management
Institute of Anaesthesiology & Pain Management Services at SIMS Hospital, Chennai provides expert anaesthesia care for the full spectrum of medical and surgical indications seen at a major tertiary health care centre.
Our Institute has state-of-the-art anaesthesia work stations and sophisticated monitors with the sole purpose of providing absolutely safe and effective anaesthesia for patients belonging to all age groups using evidence-based techniques.
We have the provision for providing full general anaesthesia with a complete range of equipment as well as regional analgesia and nerve blocks using ultrasound guidance and nerve stimulators.
Our Institute has state-of-the-art anaesthesia work stations and sophisticated monitors with the sole purpose of providing absolutely safe and effective anaesthesia for patients belonging to all age groups using evidence-based techniques.
We have the provision for providing full general anaesthesia with a complete range of equipment as well as regional analgesia and nerve blocks using ultrasound guidance and nerve stimulators.
A “pre-operative checkup” clinic run by the Institute for assessment of patients coming for surgical procedures will optimize the status of patients for safe conduct of anaesthesia.
- Anaesthesia support for liver, heart and lung, kidney, pancreas, bone marrow transplants -managed by individuals with special expertise in these procedures
- Anaesthesia support for all Surgical Specialties is being provided by expert Anaesthetists backed up by paramedical support staff
- Analgesia during childbirth with epidurals and other suitable methods is provided by Obstetric Anaesthesiologists
- Some short therapeutic procedures or diagnostic studies such as MRI Scan, CT scan, and Endoscopy procedures require the presence and special skills of an Anaesthesiologist
Our team of Anaesthesiologists also participate in the care of patients in the Medical, Neuro, Surgical and Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Units.
Pain is a complicated, often debilitating medical problem that can have a major impact on your physical and mental well-being. The division of pain management services at SIMS offers a comprehensive range of services for patients suffering from acute or chronic pain.
The pain services specialists at our centre provide some of the world’s most advanced treatment options in a supportive and compassionate environment, both on inpatient and outpatient basis. They help patients return to normalcy and comfort by restoring their quality of life.
The pain services specialists at our centre provide some of the world’s most advanced treatment options in a supportive and compassionate environment, both on inpatient and outpatient basis. They help patients return to normalcy and comfort by restoring their quality of life.
- Pain following acute trauma like RTA, post operative pain etc.
- Trigeminal neuralgia and other orofacial pain
- Neck pain
- Myofascial pain and fibromyalgia pain
- Reflex sympathetic dystrophy/causalgia pain
- Abdominal pain due to cancer pancreas or any other visceral cancer pain
- Vascular pain syndrome
- Herpes Zoster pain
- Chronic pancreatitis
- Low back pain
- Painful diabetic neuropathy
- Post-thoracotomy pain
- Chronic pain which is generalized and not responding to other therapy
- Phantom limb pain-pain after amputation of limbs
- Pain in AIDS
- Central pain states-like pain following a stroke, spinal cord injury etc
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Cancer pain
Our Pain Services centre offers numerous approaches to the management of your pain providing a holistic type of care. Some of our interventional techniques include:
- Cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacral epidural injections by interlinear route
- Transforaminal epidural blocks at lumbar and sacral levels and Radiofrequency Ablation of Dorsal Root Ganglion at Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbar levels.
- Sacroiliac joint injections
- Radiofrequency ablation of selected nerves.
- Sacral epidural adhesiolysis
- Discography at cervical, thoracic and lumbar levels
- Intradiscal thermal therapy
- Nucleoplasty
- Facet joint blocks-at cervical, thoracic and lumbar levels.
- Sympathetic blocks-including stellate ganglion block, Thoracic sympathetic block, Lumbar sympathetic block and Ganglion Impar block
- Percutaneous discectomy
- Spinal cord stimulator implantation
- Intrathecal pump implantation
- All types of nerve blocks-diagnostic and therapeutic
- Trigger point and joint injections
- Vertebroplasty & Kyphoplasty
Most of these procedures are done as day care procedures in operation theatres with full monitoring facilities utilizing safe and accepted modalities of treatment and the patients can return home on the same day as the surgery.
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