Today, anesthesiologists' roles extend far beyond that includes the following:
- Being part of the pre-hospital emergency response team.
- Aiding in patient resuscitation in the emergency department.
- Running the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), handling everything from snakebite victims to comatose patients.
- Acute and chronic as well as cancer pain relief via specialized pain centers.
- Providing sedation and anesthesia outside the operation theatre (Radiological procedures, Endoscopies and so on).
In this pandemic the role of anesthetic has been appreciated as we are working as intensivists in ICU.
We are working hard in the theatre and in ICU for better and safe patient care.
The science and art of Anesthesia has evolved and advanced at a rapid pace to the present day scenario, where the anesthetist’s role is not just limited to the time of surgery, but has permeated into the fields of pain control, palliative care, critical/intensive care and is still constantly evolving.