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Anesthesiology

Anesthesiology

Introduction

The Department of Anaesthesiology at GMERS Medical College, Vadodara is of the busiest department, catering to the anaesthesia management of surgical patients undergoing General surgical, Gastro-intestinal, Orthopaedic, Urological, Opthalmic, ENT surgery, Obstetric and Gynecological surgeries. Super speciality surgeries like Plastic surgery, Neurosurgery, Spine surgery, Vascular surgery are also carried out at our Institute. Apart from the intra-operative management and monitoring, the scope of services includes Pre-anaesthetic check-up and optimization, post-anesthesia care unit, managing the Surgical and Obstetric ICUs on round-the-clock basis, Pain Management, Emergency department and Resuscitation anywhere in the hospital.

Our Faculty and Residents are well versed with using higher end monitoring devices, Fiber-optic bronchoscope and Ultrasound based procedures on a daily basis.

We have a regular teaching schedule and organized formative assessment, which is useful for a thorough training of our Post Graduate students.

Infrastructure

Department Office and Office space for faculties
Facility
OPD Rooms
Seminar room
Skill laboratory
Pre-Anaesthetic Checkup Room

Intensive care & other facilities

  • SICU
  • OBS ICU
  • High Dependency Unit (HDU)

Equipments

  • Anesthesia Workstations
  • Fibreoptic bronchoscope
  • Video bronchoscope
  • Video laryngoscope
  • Peripheral nerve stimulator
  • Ultrasonography machine
  • Peripheral nerve locator
  • Invasive multipara monitor

Speciality Clinics

Clinic Weekday/s Timings Clinic In-charge
Pain Clinic Tuesday, Friday 9 am to 12 pm Dr. Vishal Shrimali

Services provided

Sr. No. Services
1 Management of routine and emergency operations during routine and emergency hours
2 Pre-anaesthesia check-up (PAC)
3 ICU
4 Pain Clinic
5 Casualty
6 CPR Training

PG seats

  • MD Anaesthesiology (16 seats)

Faculties

Sr. No. Name Designation Qualification
1 Dr. Anup Chandnani Professor MD Anaesthesiology
2 Dr. Neeta Bose Professor HG MD Anaesthesiology
3 Dr. Bhavesh Dalwadi Professor HG MD Anaesthesiology
4 Dr. Santosh Dubey Associate Professor MD Anaesthesiology
5 Dr. Vishal Shrimali Associate Professor MD Anaesthesiology
6 Dr. Dhara Tanna Associate Professor HG MD Anaesthesiology
7 Dr. Vrushali Aterkar Assistant Professor MD Anaesthesiology
8 Dr. Shaji Manuel Assistant Professor MD Anaesthesiology
9 Dr. Heena Patel Assistant Professor MD Anaesthesiology
10 Dr. Chiragi Bumiya Assistant Professor MD Anaesthesiology
11 Dr. Shruti Patel Assistant Professor MD Anaesthesiology
12 Dr. Neha Parikh Tutor DA Anaesthesiology

Additional qualifications and trainings

  • 1.Dr. Neeta Bose - MBA Hospital & Healthcare Management, NABH Assessor, Advanced Course in Medical Education, Instructor for Basic and Advanced Life Support (BLS and ACLS) by American Heart Association, Basic and Comprehensive Cardiopulmonary Life Support (BCLS and CCLS) course by IRC-ISA, ATLS Instructor.
  • 2.Dr. Vishal Shrimali - Aesculap Academy Daradia Fellowship in Pain Management (Basic)
  • 3.Dhara Tanna - Advanced Course in Medical Education, Instructor for basic and advanced CPR course by IRC-ISA, Training in basic pain management, Aesculap Academy Daradia Fellowship in Pain Management (Basic), Certificate course in 'Anesthesia Patient Safety' organized by APSF and CAHO
  • 4.Dr. Vrushali Aterkar - Aesculap Academy Daradia Fellowship in Pain Management (Basic)
  • 5.Dr. Shaji Manuel - Aesculap Academy Daradia Fellowship in Pain Management (Basic)
  • 6.Dr. Chiragi Bumiya - Aesculap Academy Daradia Fellowship in Pain Management (Basic), Certificate Course in Essentials of Palliative Care (CCEPC) by IAPC

Publications during the past 3 years

Years Sr. No. Journal Details
2025 1 AIR -Q as an intubating LMA: Insights from a case series. (Indian Journal of Clinical Anesthesia) Vol. 12 Issue 2, Feb 2025. Dr. Shruti Patel, Dr. Manuel Shaji Shara Azikakath, Dr. Vishal Babubhai Shrimali, Dr. Deep Paresh Kumar Unadkat, Dr. Anup Chandnani.
2024 1 Patel Runali R, Chandnani Anup, Manuel Shaji. Comparing the post-operative analgesic effects of Ultrasound-guided bilateral Quadratus Lumborum block using Ropivacaine vs Bupivacaine in Laproscopic Appendecttomy surgeries: A randomized controlled clinical study. Journal on Musculoskeletal Ultrasound and pain medicine; 9 (3): 99 – 104, September – December 2024.
2 2.Patel, Parth; Bose, Neeta; Vasava, Jayesh C; Aterkar, Vrushali; Chandnani, Anup; Tanna, Dhara. A prospective randomized comparative study of analgesic effect of dexmedetomidine versus dexamethasone as an adjuvant to 0.75% ropivacaine in ultrasound-guided interscalene block. The Indian Anaesthetists’ Forum 25(1): p 9-16, Jan–Jun 2024.
3 Bose Neeta as author: Heterogeneity of treatment effect of higher dose dexamethasone by geographic region (Europe vs. India) in patients with COVID-19 and severe hypoxemia – a post hoc evaluation of the COVID STEROID 2 trial. Bharath Kumar Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan, Anders Granholm, Sheila N. Myatra, Vivekanan et al. The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia 2024; 20: 100293
4 Neeta Bose, Amit Prajapati. Evidence-based recommendation for the use of Plasma in Critically ill patients. Chapter in ISCCM Congress book 2024.
2022 1 Manuel Shaji Shara Azikakath, Dhara Tanna, Neha Parikh, Neeta Bose, J C Vasava. Ultrasound-guided combined interscalene-superficial cervical plexus block in clavicular fractures for surgical anesthesia: A retrospective observational study. MedPulse International Journal of Anesthesiology. January 2022; 21(1):12-16. http://medpulse.in/Anesthsiology/index.php
2 Tanna DB, Bose N, Patel TK. Effect of relaxation therapy on pre-induction blood pressure and anxiety in hypertensive patients: A randomized controlled study. Bali J Anaesthesiol Jan 2022; 6: 54-9.
3 Manuel SA, Tanna DB, Patel HK, Bose N. Preparing future Indian medical graduates for emergencies at the Foundation Course: Do the knowledge and selfconfidence increase after basic cardiac life support training? Indian J Anaesth 2022 May; 66: 358-67.
4 Bose Neeta: As Co-author in a multicentric international study “Long term Outcomes of Dexamethasone 12 mg vs 6 mg in patients with Covid-19 and severe Hypoxemia”. Intensive Care Med (2022) 48:580–589.
2021 1 Bose Neeta as investigator: The COVID steroid 2 Trial Group. Effect of 12 mg vs 6 mg of Dexamethasone on the Number of Days Alive Without Life Support in Adults With COVID-19 and Severe Hypoxemia: The COVID STEROID 2 Randomized Trial. JAMA. Published online October 21, 2021. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.18295
2 Bose Neeta as investigator: Divatia JV, Mehta Y, Govil D, Zirpe K, Amin PR, Ramakrishnan N, et al. Intensive Care in India in 2018–2019: The Second Indian Intensive Care Case Mix and Practice Patterns Study. Indian J Crit Care Med [Internet]. 2021 Oct 19 [cited 2021 Oct 22];25(10):1093–107. Available from: https://www.ijccm.org/doi/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23965
3 Bose Neeta: as Investigator in a multicentric International cohort study “Risks to healthcare workers following tracheal intubation of patients with COVID-19: a prospective international multicentre cohort study”. K.El-Boghdadly, D.J.N. Wong et al. Anaesthesia 2021, 75, 1437–1447.
4 Bose Neeta: Chapter “Use of Newer technology in ICU Nutrition” in ISCCM Critical Care Update 2021, March 2021.

Talks delivered

years Name Details
2025 Dr. Neeta Bose
  • Workshop On Troubleshooting in Airway management – 2 March 2025 at SSGH, Vadodara
  • Lecture & Skill Station, ATLS Course – 7th Jan 2025 at Apex Academy, Ahmedabad
  • ISA CME – Lecture – 18 June 2025, Vadodara
  • Faculty at ISA World SIVA Congress, held at Chandigarh, July 2025
  • BCLS CCLS (IRC Accredited) Course Co-ordinator – 23 24 Aug 2025, GMERS, Vadodara
  • Faculty for Workshop and for Lecture on “Blind Nasal Intubation” at National Airway Conference – 12 – 13th September 2025, Udaipur.
  • Faculty for Mechanical Ventilation Workshop – Workstation on “Role of USG in mechanical ventilation, Lecture delivered on “Refractory Bradycardia and TCP” and as Judge for Paper presentation at the Gujarat ISACON 19 – 21 Sept 2025.
  • Instructor at ATLS Course - Lecture & Skill Station – 9 - 11th October 2025 at Apex Academy, Ahmedabad.
  • Faculty at Gujarat Criticon 2025 – Lecture: Montpellier Protocol: Preventing Peri-Intubation Arrest in ICU, ED, & OT – 14 – 16th November 2025 at Surat.
  • Faculty at BCMR-MRDP Training of Teachers on 9 – 11 Dec 2025, GMERS, Vadodara
  • BCLS CCLS (IRC Accredited) Course Co-ordinator – 13 14 Dec 2025, GMERS, Vadodara
  • Faculty for State level Difficult Airway Workshop at SBKS MI & RC, Sumandeep Vidyapeeth, Vadodara – 20 December 2025.
Dr Santosh Dubey
  • Faculty for Research Methodology Workshop in ISACON Gujarat 2025
Dr Dhara Tanna
  • Faculty for workshop- 'Obesiology' in ISACON Gujarat 2025
Dr. Chiragi Bumiya:
  • Faculty lecture on Geriatric patient- What to focus in PAC – 26th April 2025 at ISA YUVACON HYDERABAD
  • Faculty at Gujarat ISACON 2025 – Lecture on Troubleshooting in Mechanical Ventilation at Workshop and on Newer advances in Anaesthesia in YUVA QUICK BYTES session & won 2nd prize for the same
  • Faulty lecture on Rapid Sequence intubation in CME, AIDAA, NAC Sept 2025 Udaipur
  • Faculty lecture on Lumbar spine screening (USG) for central neuraxial blocks (Spinal, epidural and caudal Anaesthesia) as YUVA Faculty at National ISACON 2025, Raipur
2024 Dr. Neeta Bose
  • AHA – BLS & ACLS – Instructor - 19 – 21 Jan 2024 at Sterling Hospital, Vadodara
  • ISA & APA Vadodara: CME & Journal club – 18th April 2024 at Aadicura Hosp, Vadodara
  • ATLS Course - Lecture & Skill Station – 25 - 27th April 2024 at Apex Academy, Ahmedabad
  • Mid annual Anesth conference (MAAC) – Organizer & Moderator – 19 May 2024, Grand Mercure, Vadodara
  • Regional Anesthesia Workshop – Instructor – 21 July 2024 – at Ahmedabad
  • National Airway conference (AiDAA) – Faculty at Workshop – 20 Sep 2024 at AIIMS, Mangalagiri
  • GISACON 2024, Annual conference of ISA-GSB – Video Lecture & Panel discussion – 28, 29 September 2024 at Deltin, Daman
  • ISA National PG assembly 2024 – Lecture – 4 – 6th October 2024 at Sangli, by ISA Miraj-Sangli branch & Dept. Of Anaesth Govt. Medical College Miraj & Dept. of Anaesthesiology BVDU Sangli.
  • Gujarat Criticon 2024 – Lecture: Hemodynamics workshop – 22nd November 2024 at MK Shah Med College, Ahmedabad
  • 71st Annual National Conference of the ISA, ISACON 2024 – Panel discussion - 23 – 24th November 2024, Patna
  • BCME – Lecture – 4 – 5 Dec 2024, GMERS, Vadodara
  • Regional Nerve block Workshop - Lectures -22nd Dec 2024 at GMERS Med College, Patan
  • BCLS CCLS (IRC Accredited) Course Co-ordinator - 26 27 Dec 2024, GMERS, Vadodara
Dr. Chiragi Bumiya
  • Faculty lecture on “Lumbar spine screening for Spinal & Caudal Anesthesia” on 19th May, 2024 at Mid Annual Anesthesia Conference (MaaC) Vadodara
  • Structured Training Course (Training of Teachers) (TOT) on Flexible Endoscopic Intubation, Narayana Hospital, Ahmedabad, 25th February 2024
2023 Dr. Neeta Bose
  • NASDS – Cadaveric Workshop – organized – 5 Feb 2023 at GMERS, Vadodara
  • Criticare 2023, National ISCCM Conference - Lecture delivered – 26 Feb 2023, Indore
  • BCLS CCLS (IRC Accredited) Course Co-ordinator - 26 27 Feb 2023, VINS Hospital, Vadodara
  • ATLS Course - Lecture & Skill Station– 16th June 2023 at Apex Academy, Ahmedabad
  • EUROASIA 2023 (joint meeting between ESICM & ISCCM) – Video Lecture & Skill station - 9 - 11th June 2023 at the Westin Hotel, Powai, Mumbai.
  • National Airway conference (AiDAA) – Workshop, Lecture, Panel discussion – 9 Sep 2023 at Sher-I Kashmir Institute, Srinagar
  • Gujarat Criticon 2023 – Lecture & Skill Station: ABG Workshop – 6 to 8 Oct 2023, Bhavnagar
  • 54th Annual conference of ISA of Gujarat State Branch – Faculty at Workshop & Lecture - 13 to 15 Oct 2023 at Sun Resort, Abu, Rajasthan
  • Fiberoptic TOT – Lecture & Skill Station – 4, 5 Dec 2023 at VINS
Dr. Santosh Dubey
  • Participated in organizing NASDS – Cadaveric Workshop on 5 Feb 2023 at GMERS, Vadodara
  • Conducted BCLS programme at BITS Educampus Varnama for physiotherapy Students BCLS programme on 29/09/2023
Dr. Manuel Shaji Shara Azikakath
  • Training as CCLS instructor
  • NASDS national anaesthesia skill development session as faculty
  • Structured training course on flexible endoscopic intubation as trainee and then as faculty
Dr. Neha Parikh
  • NASDS National Anaesthesia Skill Development Session Feb 2023
  • TOT Structured training course on flexible endoscopic intubation as trainer in Dec 2023

Events

years Details
2025
  • CPR week celebration done around World Anesthesia Day, from 13 to 17th October – as per directive from Govt of India. Various activities that were carried out during the whole week: CPR Training to Lay persons, relatives of patients, Clerks and Technicians of the Hospital, Poster, Quiz, Rangoli making and Skit competition amongst the Post Graduate students. The staff had done a street play for the patients and their relatives in the ground floor foyer of the Hospital, to spread the awareness and train them for COLS-CPR.
2024
  • 16th October, World Anaesthesia Day celebration – Role play (acting) regarding history of Anaesthesia delivered by junior residents & talk delivered on COLS for lay persons at OPD area by Faculties
  • 21st June, World Yoga Day celebration – there was a unique showcase of skills & dedication of Anaesthesia staff and residents
  • Talk on "Peace & Humanity" by Mr. Prem Rawat, International speaker on peace arranged in department under auspices of Rajvidya Kendra by Dr. Santosh Dubey on 29/04/2024
2023
  • 5th February, Pain workshop on cadavers organised in OR & Anatomy dissection hall during NASDS (National Anaesthesia Skill Development Sessions) conference – by Anaesthesia Department

Awards & Achievements

  • Dr. Anup Chandnani – “Certificate of Merit” awarded during the by 1st GRIP Regional Summit 2025 by the Regional Deputy Directorate office under NHM Gujarat
  • Dr. Neeta Bose - received Covid warrior Certificate by ROTARY CLUB Vadodara
  • Dr Neeta Bose – selected for Indian Journal of Anesthesia Reviewer Fellowship, September 2025
  • Dr. Dhruvi Patel (2nd year resident) won 2nd prize, prestigious TN Jha Award at Gujarat State ISACON 2025
  • Dr. Prem Vasani (2nd year resident) won 2nd prize, MT Bhatia Award Gujarat State ISACON 2025
  • Dr. Chiragi received a special prize in the young Faculty's section at Gujarat State ISACON 2025
  • Dr Harsh Patel (2nd year resident) secured 2nd prize in the Obstetric non-TIVA category at ISA World SIVA Congress, held at Chandigarh, July 2025
  • Dr. Chiragi Bumiya (AP) – winner of Shri H M Desai award for original research paper in the Institutional faculty category 2024
  • Dept. of Anaesthesia received certificate by World Records India – ISA Gujarat Chapter & BJP Doctor Cell Team, supporting World Record Holder, (largest CPR training, sessions at multiple venues) to support the FIT India movement and to create awareness about Lifesaving Technique that is useful in emergency situations.
  • Dr. Prachi Dalal (2nd year resident) - runner up in the original paper competition M T BHATIA award 2024.
  • Dr. Zalak Patel (2nd year resident) – runner up in the original paper competition T N JHA award 2023
  • Dr. Runali Patel (2nd year resident) – first prize in the original paper competition ISA Jaipur award 2022 at National conference of Indian society of Anesthesia.
  • Dr. Niti Desai (2nd year resident) – first prize in the original case series at the National AIDAA conference at Mumbai 2022.

Photo Gallery
Dr. Anup Chandnani receiving 2nd prize for ‘Decentralised case window for improving patient time and staff efficiency’ at the first ‘Good, Replicable & Innovative Practice (GRIP) Summit 2025 on 11.03.2025.
CPR week – Initiative from Govt of India for World Anaesthesia Day / Poster and Rangoli making competition / Hands-on CPR Training to Lay-persons, Patient relatives / Public Walkathon for CPR awareness / Skit & Quiz competition, Skit performance for CPR cognizance / CPR TRAINING OF INTERNS & UG STUDENTS / CPR TRAINING TO BJP LEADERS & KARYKARTAS
COLS TRAINING OF TEACHERS AT LUNAVADA SCHOOL MAHISAGAR DISTRICT / COLS TRAINING to lay public on World Anaesthesia Day 16/10/2024 / Ventilator Training / COLS TRAINING to lay public on World Anaesthesia Day 16/10/2023 / NASDS FEB 2023 – PAIN CATAGERY WORK SHOP / CPR Training for Physiotherapy Students at BITS, Varnama / CPR TRAINING TO STUDENTS OD DON BOSCO SCHOOL /