Doctors observe World Anaesthesia Day at Hotel Ganga International. Picture by Uma Shankar Dubey

Jamshedpur, Oct. 16: City anaesthetists deliberated on breakthrough in equipment and global availability of drugs this evening to mark the World Anaesthesia Day.

Welcoming the guests, Umesh Chandra, president, Indian Society of Anaesthesiologist, Jamshedpur branch, said anaesthesiology is a speciality in its own right and not subservient to surgery as has been traditionally thought.

“We have now come out of the four walls of the operating room and are offering our services to the intensive care, post-operative wards, pain clinics, casualty services, labour rooms and accident services,” he added.

He said: “It is true that nearly 150 years ago we were a necessity for painless surgery but it is also true that on our growth depended the widening of surgical horizon.”

He also displayed slides, which reflected the growth and equipment breakthrough, (NIPB, Capnometer, temperature control and blood glucose monitors) era of disposables, global availability of drugs, current care-takers and efficient managers at operation theatres and Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

While ISA secretary R Shukla presented the ISAJAC — 2000 report, P Mukherjee, chief anaesthetist, Tinplate Hospital, presented the curtain raiser. ISA founder president R.G. Dutt was felicitated on the occasion. B Ray, HOD, anaesthesia, Tata Main Hospital delivered a speech on the subject — anaesthesia in hypertension.