Registrar - Anaesthesiology

Apollo Knowledge Ventures Limited; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

A Registrar in Anaesthesiology provides safe perioperative anaesthetic care, manages critically ill patients, and supports emergency and teaching services.

Core duties include pre-anaesthetic assessment, anaesthetic management, intraoperative monitoring, postoperative care, emergency response, ICU care, obstetric anaesthesia, and related procedures, while ensuring patient safety and multidisciplinary collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Pre-anaesthetic assessment: Evaluate patients before surgery, review medical history, investigations, medications, allergies, airway, and anaesthetic risk.
• Anaesthetic management: Administer and monitor general, regional, and local anaesthesia under appropriate supervision.
• Intraoperative monitoring: Monitor vital parameters, manage the airway, ventilation, fluids, blood loss, and haemodynamic changes.
• Postoperative care: Provide recovery-room care, manage postoperative pain, nausea and other anaesthetic complications.
• Emergency services: Respond to medical emergencies, cardiac arrests, trauma, difficult-airway situations, and provide resuscitation.
• ICU/critical care: Participate in the management of critically ill patients, including airway management, mechanical ventilation, haemodynamic support, and procedures where applicable.
• Obstetric anaesthesia: Provide anaesthetic services for labour, Caesarean sections, and obstetric emergencies, depending on hospital responsibilities.
• Procedures: Perform or assist with procedures such as intubation, central/arterial line placement, regional blocks, and vascular access, according to competency and hospital policy.
• Pain management: Assist with acute and postoperative pain services and regional analgesia.
• On-call duties: Provide anaesthesia and emergency cover during assigned shifts, nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Documentation: Maintain accurate anaesthetic charts, preoperative assessments, postoperative notes, consent documentation, and complication records.
• Multidisciplinary coordination: Work closely with surgeons, intensivists, emergency physicians, nursing staff, and other healthcare professionals.
• Patient safety: Follow infection-control measures, medication-safety protocols, difficult-airway guidelines, blood-transfusion protocols, and other hospital policies.
• Teaching and training: Assist in teaching medical students, interns, junior residents, and other healthcare staff.
• Clinical governance: Participate in audits, morbidity and mortality meetings, quality-improvement activities, research, and continuing professional development.
• Equipment management: Ensure anaesthesia machines, airway equipment, monitors, emergency drugs, and resuscitation equipment are available and functional.

Job description

A Registrar in Anaesthesiology is generally responsible for providing safe perioperative anaesthetic care, managing critically ill patients, and supporting emergency and teaching services.

• Pre-anaesthetic assessment: Evaluate patients before surgery, review medical history, investigations, medications, allergies, airway, and anaesthetic risk.
• Anaesthetic management: Administer and monitor general, regional, and local anaesthesia under appropriate supervision.
• Intraoperative monitoring: Monitor vital parameters, manage the airway, ventilation, fluids, blood loss, and haemodynamic changes.
• Postoperative care: Provide recovery-room care, manage postoperative pain, nausea and other anaesthetic complications.
• Emergency services: Respond to medical emergencies, cardiac arrests, trauma, difficult-airway situations, and provide resuscitation.
• ICU/critical care: Participate in the management of critically ill patients, including airway management, mechanical ventilation, haemodynamic support, and procedures where applicable.
• Obstetric anaesthesia: Provide anaesthetic services for labour, Caesarean sections, and obstetric emergencies, depending on hospital responsibilities.
• Procedures: Perform or assist with procedures such as intubation, central/arterial line placement, regional blocks, and vascular access, according to competency and hospital policy.
• Pain management: Assist with acute and postoperative pain services and regional analgesia.
• On-call duties: Provide anaesthesia and emergency cover during assigned shifts, nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Documentation: Maintain accurate anaesthetic charts, preoperative assessments, postoperative notes, consent documentation, and complication records.
• Multidisciplinary coordination: Work closely with surgeons, intensivists, emergency physicians, nursing staff, and other healthcare professionals.
• Patient safety: Follow infection-control measures, medication-safety protocols, difficult-airway guidelines, blood-transfusion protocols, and other hospital policies.
• Teaching and training: Assist in teaching medical students, interns, junior residents, and other healthcare staff.
• Clinical governance: Participate in audits, morbidity and mortality meetings, quality-improvement activities, research, and continuing professional development.
• Equipment management: Ensure anaesthesia machines, airway equipment, monitors, emergency drugs, and resuscitation equipment are available and functional.