About Anesthesiology
Department of Anesthesiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal has been one of the foremost national centres of teaching and clinical excellence. It is a busy department providing anesthetic services at approximately 25 different locations every day.
Anesthetic services are provided to a wide variety of surgeries including:
- General surgery
- Orthopedics
- Obstetrics and gynecology
- Otolaryngology
- Ophthalmology
- Maxillofacial surgery
TYPES OF ANESTHESIA
where the patient is kept asleep and General anaesthesia (GA)pain free throughout the procedure using continuous administration of anaesthetics. At the end of surgery, the effect of anaesthetics is reversed and he/she is woken up.
Regional anesthesia (RA)
where the patient is awake but the part to be operated upon is made temporarily numb using injection of local anaesthetics. If the injection is made into the fluid surrounding the spinal cord, it is called spinal anaesthesia. If local anaesthetics are injected around the sheath covering spinal cord, it is called epidural anaesthesia. If the injection is made around individual nerve groups, it is called plexus block.
Monitored anesthesia care (MAC)
Some surgeries can be done using local anesthesia where the injection is made immediately around the part to be operated upon. This is suitable for-relatively minor surgeries. However, if there is a worry that the patient can get anxious or that the surgery might be more extensive than anticipated, anesthetists are requested to be ‘stand-by’ to administer sedation, pain relief or anesthesia as required.
Contact Details
HOD: Dr. Krishna H M
1st Floor, CSOT Block
Madhav Nagar, Manipal, Karnataka 576104
Services
The Team

Dr. Krishna H M
Head of Department

DR. Anitha Nileshwar
Professor

Dr. Shaji Mathew
Professor

Dr. Arun Kumar HD
Professor

Dr. Malavika
Professor

Dr. Vijaya Kumara
Associate Professor

Dr. Laxmi Shenoy
Associate Professor

Dr. Sandesh U
Associate Professor

Dr. Nita Varghese
Associate Professor

Dr. Sushma T K
Associate Professor

Dr. Rama Rani
Associate Professor

Dr. Priyanka G Kini
Associate Professor

Dr. Shweta Sinha
Assistant Professor

Dr. Ravitej
Assistant Professor

Dr. Anshu S.L
Assistant Professor

Dr. Savan Kumar Nagesh
Assistant Professor

Dr. Nisha Sara M J
Assistant Professor

Dr. Rohini Dattatri
Assistant Professor

Dr. Megha T
Assistant Professor

Dr. Prashanth Kamalaksha Karkala
Assistant Professor

Dr. Priyadharshini M
Assistant Professor

Dr. Arjun Balakrishnan
Assistant Professor

Dr. Suvajit Podder
Assistant Professor