Anaesthesia Department

The magic behind the freedom from pain.

WAVES HOSPITAL

Anaesthesia

Anaesthesia is the medical discipline with the focus of finding and utilising means to carry out surgery and medical procedures safely and without pain. Anaesthesia may be relatively simple from numbing the skin in preparation for a catheter to using combinations of drugs to cause unconsciousness in preparation for major surgery.

ANAESTHESIA SERVICE

Veterinary Anaesthesia at WAVES

The anaesthesia service provides support to all areas of the hospital anaesthetising high-risk patients for a wide variety of procedures. Patient in the high-risk category require advanced anaesthesia techniques and intensive monitoring to provide the best possible outcomes.

Common procedures where a specialist anaesthetist may be involved include:

Cardiac surgery
Thoracic surgery
Abdominal surgery with potential for massive haemorrhage
Elderly patients
Critically ill patients
Patients with other co-morbidities eg heart disease

In addition to undertaking anaesthetic procedures, the anaesthesia service also performs analgesic evaluations for patients with poorly controlled chronic pain to ensure a good quality of life.

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